Il a prévu, à l ’ époque, un véritable arsenal juridique pour refouler les ressortissants de ces deux pays car, pour les autorités françaises, derrière les Roumains et derrière les Bulgares, il y a les Roms.
A huge amount of legislation was passed at that time to prevent the entry of citizens from those two countries because, as far as the French authorities are concerned, behind Romanians and behind Bulgarians there are Roma.