French Housing Minister Cecile Duflot called for "individual solutions that will go along with the dismantling of the camps".

BBC: French government eases job access for Roma

French Interior Minister Manuel Valls, who visited the scene later with Housing Minister Cecile Duflot, said "we met a family devastated by grief, trying to comprehend what has happened".

BBC: Paris apartment fire kills five in Gennevilliers suburb

Housing Minister Cecile Duflot has promised a full inquiry.

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