PARIS—France was deporting nearly 100 Gypsies, or Roma, to their native Romania on Thursday as part of a public effort by President Nicolas Sarkozy to dismantle Roma camps and sweep them out of the country.
France chartered a flight to Bucharest, which was to leave later Thursday from the central city of Lyon with 73 Roma aboard, Immigration Ministry officials said. Fourteen others were repatriated to Romania aboard a commercial flight from the Paris region earlier in the day, the officials said, adding that another Romania-bound repatriation flight was expected on Friday.