Since then, according to Brice Hortefeux, the interior minister, the authorities have closed 88 of France's several hundred illegal camps, and deported 850 Roma, mostly to Romania and Bulgaria.

内政部长奥尔特弗(Brice Hortefeux)称，七月以来，相关机构关闭了88个非法吉普赛聚居地(非法吉普赛聚居地在法国有上百个)，850名吉普赛人被驱赶出境——大部分被遣返到罗马尼亚和保加利亚。

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Brice Hortefeux, the interior minister, wildly overreacted, demanding that he be stripped of his French nationality.

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The country's Interior Minister, Brice Hortefeux, said the Roma would be returned to their country of origin on "specially chartered flights".

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And as if all that were not enough, last month, Brice Hortefeux, the interior minister and long-time chum of Mr Sarkozy, was caught on video engaging in racist-sounding banter.

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