President Francois Hollande on Saturday acknowledged that France bore "broad responsibility" for the internment of thousands of Roma by the World War II Vichy regime and in the early months of the post-war government.



"The day has come, and this truth must be told," Hollande said in a ceremony at a former internment camp in Montreuil-Bellay, central France. "The (French) Republic acknowledges the suffering of travelling people who were interned and admits that it bears broad responsibility."