Trouble as riot police evict Paris migrants
Oliver Gee - [email protected]
Published: 8 Jun, 2015 CET.
Updated: Mon 8 Jun 2015 17:26 CET
Parisians formed a human chain in a failed attempt to stop riot police from evacuating a migrant campsite in northern Paris on Monday, when over 100 migrants were moved on.
The migrants are understood to have come from the temporary campsite that was in place for about a year near the La Chapelle metro station, a campsite that was cleared out last week of its 400 or so residents.
#pajol pic.twitter.com/JxoFNANdJk
— Lombriduc (@Lombriduc) June 8, 2015
Monday afternoon saw around 120 of these migrants moved on again from their new camp, which was near the Saint Bernard church in the 18th arrondissement, reported French channel BFM TV.
#migants #pajol. Cordon militants et elus pour proteger les migrants. pic.twitter.com/4JwycO032l
— monin etienne (@ETmonin) June 8, 2015
Around 30 of them were taken in by police to have their identities checked, AFP news agency reported, while the rest were taken off in buses to an unknown location.
Donc en défendant les migrants, l'adjoint du 18ème Hugo Touzet a été molesté par la police #pajol via @IanBrossat pic.twitter.com/Qek3KrgfUi
— David Perrotin (@davidperrotin) June 8, 2015
A video of the evacuation on BFMTV showed the police acting roughly with the migrants, carrying one of them away when he apparently refused to cooperate.
Expulsion violente et sans raison du camp #pajol #lachapelle par des ces arrivant en courant pendant le repas pic.twitter.com/YXUk1kzcIr
— Laur'Ann ✏️ (@LauranneGW) June 8, 2015
While many of the migrants are on the way to the northern port of Calais, others have been left wondering what to do in the meantime after their nearby camp was taken down last week.
One Sudanese migrant, who asked not to be named, told The Local last week that he would try his luck at another large camp near the Gare du Lyon train station.
(A scene from the La Chapelle campsite last week. Photo: AFP)
"I don't know what I'm going to do now. I have to think. If they gave me papers I would stay in France," he said at the time.
"It's a very difficult life. But this is what we have and all we can do is try," he added.
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The migrants are understood to have come from the temporary campsite that was in place for about a year near the La Chapelle metro station, a campsite that was cleared out last week of its 400 or so residents.
#pajol pic.twitter.com/JxoFNANdJk
— Lombriduc (@Lombriduc) June 8, 2015
Monday afternoon saw around 120 of these migrants moved on again from their new camp, which was near the Saint Bernard church in the 18th arrondissement, reported French channel BFM TV.
#migants #pajol. Cordon militants et elus pour proteger les migrants. pic.twitter.com/4JwycO032l
— monin etienne (@ETmonin) June 8, 2015
Around 30 of them were taken in by police to have their identities checked, AFP news agency reported, while the rest were taken off in buses to an unknown location.
Donc en défendant les migrants, l'adjoint du 18ème Hugo Touzet a été molesté par la police #pajol via @IanBrossat pic.twitter.com/Qek3KrgfUi
— David Perrotin (@davidperrotin) June 8, 2015
A video of the evacuation on BFMTV showed the police acting roughly with the migrants, carrying one of them away when he apparently refused to cooperate.
Expulsion violente et sans raison du camp #pajol #lachapelle par des ces arrivant en courant pendant le repas pic.twitter.com/YXUk1kzcIr
— Laur'Ann ✏️ (@LauranneGW) June 8, 2015
While many of the migrants are on the way to the northern port of Calais, others have been left wondering what to do in the meantime after their nearby camp was taken down last week.
One Sudanese migrant, who asked not to be named, told The Local last week that he would try his luck at another large camp near the Gare du Lyon train station.
(A scene from the La Chapelle campsite last week. Photo: AFP)
"I don't know what I'm going to do now. I have to think. If they gave me papers I would stay in France," he said at the time.
"It's a very difficult life. But this is what we have and all we can do is try," he added.
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