Gypsy infant refused burial in France gets grave

[joeybee12]

PARIS (AP) — An infant Gypsy girl who died suddenly will now have a resting place after one mayor refused to allow her to be buried in his town south of Paris, where the parents live in a camp.

The girl's funeral will be held on Monday in a nearby town — 10 days after her death

"I didn't hesitate a shadow of a second," Wissous Mayor Richard Trinquier told BFM-TV on Saturday.

He said that not to provide a grave for the child who died in a hospital, reportedly of sudden infant death syndrome, is "humanly unthinkable."

http://news.yahoo.com/gypsy-infant-refused-burial-france-gets-grave-202303577.html

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

1. I believe that they like the term Romani.

[LittleBlue]

2. Ah yes, the tolerant French. Liberte, egalite, fraternite

Unless you're Muslim or Roma

[joeybee12]

3. They have a Sarkozy strain...

I say that because he was awful...a real bigot

[Warpy]

4. More like a Le Pen strain

and a bug up their collective ass about "consecrated ground" admitting only Christians, even the ones who were born in Christian families but never believed a word of it.

I'm glad there's a compassionate mayor who got the point: an infant has no religion, it just is.

Peace to that poor Roma family who had to have their daughter unburied for 10 days.

[jwirr]

5. I am continually surprised at the depth of the old prejudice that are still around. Really sad.

[1step]

6. Is this 2015?

Or 1935?

[Omaha Steve]

7. K&R

For doing the right thing.