On Air: Does this video tell us anything about the immigration debate in France?
| 15:08 UK time, Tuesday, 3 August 2010
This video has been released on the internet in France, it has had 500'000 on YouTube, and some people have been shocked.
LycoApollo on twitter says : The way the French police handled a baby and a pregnant woman in this video chilled me to the bone.
Benjamin Holmes writes on our facebook page: Brutal! Where was the brutality? French authorities are breaking up camps of illegal immigrants, who have no right to be in any country BUT their own. Show me the use of batons and fists, and I too will say brutality. But there was none.
French police say the video is .
The video came out as the is planning to amend a law which would allow the government to strip naturalised French citizens of their nationality if they commit crimes punishable by five or more years in prison.
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that revoking citizenship is obviously a very touchy issue, even more so in race terms than on the legal level. Nonetheless, it needs to be assessed within a wider framework of a serious "citizenship policy" that fits the new European context.
So does this video tell us anything about the immigration debate in France? If you commit a crime in an adoptive country should you lose your nationality?
