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In a series of press releases, DHS told a different story and justified firing “non-lethal” weapons on crowds by calling them rioters, looters, gypsies, tramps and thieves.

Linda, 17, who is from a gypsy background and did not go to secondary school, joined the programme without any qualifications.

Thomas arrives in a Romanian village, where he encounters a group of jolly gypsies who laugh at him and warn him and whose blood rituals he witnesses in the night.

“Theater people are vagabonds, wandering gypsies,” he writes.

"We deeply regret any distress caused, particularly to members of the traveller and gypsy communities who have been directly affected," the company added.