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Associated PressGermany denies alleged Merkel comment on camps
By MELISSA EDDY
The Associated Press
Friday, September 17, 2010; 7:30 AM
BERLIN -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel's office denied Friday that she had told French President Nicolas Sarkozy her country planned to evacuate its own illegal immigrant camps, after he suggested Berlin was planning measures similar to those undertaken by Paris.
Sarkozy, who has drawn widespread international condemnation for ordering the clearing out some 100 illegal immigrant camps, many inhabited by Gypsies - also known as Roma - told reporters after the European Union summit on Thursday that Germany planned similar action.
"Madame Merkel indicated to me her will to proceed in the coming weeks with the evacuation of camps. We will see at that point the calm that reigns in German political life," he said.
Merkel's spokesman, Steffen Seibert, flatly denied the chancellor had made any such remark, but refused to be drawn on what her reaction to it was.
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