It showed how the French administration juggles the limits of the law in trying to define people as communities, without being accused of discrimination against the same people: The confusion between "travelers" and gypsies comes in part from the unique provision in the French administration that prohibits the description of part of the population along ethnic lines.
Путаница между "странниками" и цыганами возникла из-за положения во Франции, запрещающего объединять население по этнической принадлежности.