Flagging Popularity: Security Crackdown

Nicolas Sarkozy Dept: Every day, French police raid more Gypsy settlements, rounding up hundreds of foreign-born Roma for expulsion, using tactics that one member of Sarkozy's ruling party compared to those of France's Nazi-era collaboration, according to Montreal Gazette. Sarkozy hopes such stringent tactics will restore his flagging popularity with French voters in the run-up to the 2012 presidential election, but the harsh tone has raised eyebrows even among some politicians of the right and president Nicolas Sarkozy's racially tinged security crackdown has begun to cause concern even within his own right-wing camp and raise fears that he has damaged France's international image. The crackdown on illegal Gypsy campsites comes alongside planned measures to strip some foreign-born criminals of their citizenship, after the government made an explicit link between immigration and crime. As reported in the news.
@t president nicolas sarkozy, montreal gazette