article_snippet.sent: A French bus driver has proposed putting on a separate service for Roma passengers - because the 'unbearable' smell is a health risk to everyone on board.
article_snippet.sent: Dominique Granier sparked outrage after Dominique Granier suggested putting on a service specifically for people travelling from a Roma encampment next to a cemetery into the centre of Montpellier, in the south of France.
article_snippet.sent: The smell on route 9 in Montpellier is said to be 'unbearable' and caused by Roma using the service .
article_snippet.sent: Bus driver Mr Granier said the smell which accompanied Roma Roma was a 'sanitation risk' in an interview last week.
article_snippet.sent: Bernard Gotis, a local union representative, was disgusted by his comments. '
article_snippet.sent: We do not want to recreate apartheid in Montpellier,' Bus driver Mr Granier said.
article_snippet.sent: Pictured: Roma in Montpellier .
article_snippet.sent: Bus driver Mr Granier told French newspaper Libération: 'Our management decided to follow the union by removing a piece of this bus line which is very popular with Roma and to outsource this portion of line.'
article_snippet.sent: The MailOnline has contacted Montpellier's bus service for a comment.
highlights_snippet.sent: Montpellier bus driver sparks outrage with comment over the 'odour'
  
highlights_snippet.sent: But union bosses have said smell from those traveling into the city on route 9 risks creating 'apartheid' in French city .