FRANCE came under fresh fire for expelling Roma migrants yesterday as the European Parliament demanded it “immediately suspend” removal of the Gypsies.

France today promised to continue dismantling illegal gypsy encampments and sending their inhabitants back to Eastern Europe despite widespread international criticism.

FRANCE defied mounting international criticism of its crackdown on Roma and Gypsy minorities yesterday, sending another planeload back to eastern Europe.

France’s prime minister Francois Fillon today said he will sign a decree denying nationality to a man who acknowledged forcing his French wife to wear a burka-style veil over her face.

France has stopped returning illegal immigrants to Haiti following the massive earthquake.

FRENCH police cleared out, then bulldozed, a squalid forest camp near the northern city of Calais yesterday, detaining hundreds of illegal immigrants who had hoped to slip across the English Channel into Britain.

France’s immigration minister today defended the operation to close down 'the jungle', a ramshackle immigrant camp near Calais in northern France.

French police today cleared a controversial immigrant camp in Calais known as ’the jungle’.

FRENCH police are expected to move in today to clear the immigrant camp in Calais known as “the jungle”, and detain about 1,500 mainly Afghan asylum seekers.

FRANCE yesterday defended its decision to close a makeshift migrant camp known as “The Jungle” as the UN refugee body warned it had a duty towards people fleeing the world’s war zones.

French police held nearly 200 people without papers in a mass identity check around Calais today.

FRENCH President Nicolas Sarkozy unveiled a broad-based cabinet yesterday, naming popular leftist Bernard Kouchner as foreign minister in a slimline government that radically reshaped the finance ministry.