[Tainan]

While I suspect you might have some validity in your comment re:voting power, I will hazard a guess that the north African/Muslim vote block is still rather small and relatively unorganized. This would limit its effective sway in elections. I could be wrong and would welcome any further facts that would show the facts more clearly.

As mentioned in post #7, this problem with the gypsies/Roma has been a bad one in Italy, Rome in particular, for a great many years. It has become a sub-culture all its own. A parasitic sub-culture.

[dangus]

North Africans constitute 10% of the French population; Muslims constitute 10%; Naturally, these two figures predominantly overlap.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France#Demography

[bIlluminati]

On voting: Did you know that in American elections prior to 9/11, Muslims (other than Black Muslims) voted 60% Republican?

Muslims in France vote as a bloc, and Sarkozy is not their chosen leader. In 2000, Muslims were around 10% of the population in France. But native French average 1 baby per woman, while Muslims in France average 2.6 babies per woman. That means that already 25% of first-graders in France are Muslim, and by 2035, 60% of first-graders will be Muslim.

The Roma are a small minority. Many young adults leave the Roma community, looking for honest work. But in this economic environment, not so much.