Égalité?: Traveller and holocaust survivor talks of violence at the hands of the French police

Headline Title: Égalité?: Traveller and holocaust survivor talks of police violence in France 27 November 2014 Exactly 74 years ago today, 15-year-old French Traveller, Raymond Gûreme, was arrested along with his parents and six siblings and taken to a detention camp in Linas-Monthléry in Nazi-occupied France.He went on to experience years of abuse at the hands of the Nazis for being a Traveller. Now, seven decades later, he lives like many Travellers on the margins of society with discrimination still part of his daily life. He was recently beaten in a police raid.Raymond and his…

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