Clashes erupted Wednesday between police and protesters came to support dozens of migrants who occupy the Jean Jaures high school in the nineteenth arrondissement of Paris since April 21.
Two days after the evacuation of Stalingrad camp northeast of Paris, Jean-Jaures high school, occupied since April 21 by dozens of migrants began to be evacuated Wednesday morning at 6:15. Dozens of riot police and gendarmes have been dispatched to conduct the operation, claimed by the Île-de-France region.
Jean-Jaures high school was inaugurated on the night of April 21 to 22 with 150 migrants, including Afghanistan, Yemen, Sudan, Eritrea and Somalia, later joined by others. Men, adolescents, women with children. These migrants came from the wild camp located under the elevated metro station Stalingrad (north of Paris), which was again dismantled Monday morning. More than 1,600 migrants were supported during this evacuation, which is a record in Paris.
Early Wednesday morning, dozens of people gathered outside the school in the work to try to prevent this intervention. Around 6:20, clashes then erupted Bolivar Street between demonstrators and security forces. Soon, the police used tear gas to disperse the people present that blocked the entrance to the school by forming a human chain. In front of the protesters, some of them masked and hooded, responded by throwing projectiles and chanting “everyone hates the police,” said a journalist from AFP. Information disputed by witnesses on the spot.
About 300 migrants in high school under construction
Calm has returned shortly after. Gathered outside the main entrance of the school, demonstrators chanted “Solidarity with Refugees”. Around 7 am, a reporter for the iTV channel was attacked by protesters, according to images broadcast live on the social network Periscope. He was evacuated by police.
On the other side of the establishment, Clavel Street, police found another entrance and forced an iron gate, blocked by tables and chairs, to go inside. “This morning the police gassed us and repulsed. Yesterday at midnight had mounted a roadblock with tables and chairs, they have everything clear, “he told AFP Emmanuel, a Ghanaian twenty years out on the arrival of police. High school, “it’s better than the street,” said the young man who is worried: “I do not know where they want to take us”
Officials of the collective La Chapelle standing undertook. parley inside the school with police, reports one of their members, referring to “300″ migrants settled there. Several buses were chartered. Then protesters joined the back of the building and tried to block the use of a bus for the evacuation of migrants. Also according to images broadcast on Periscope, dozens of people sat on the floor facing the mobile police to prevent the departure of one of five chartered buses for evacuation. In the process, the police cordoned off the perimeter, preventing protesters off the streets.
An evacuation claimed by the region Île-de-France
first bus, with their edges tens of migrants, started from around 9:15. At this point, we still did not know their destination. When asked about this, the police headquarters in Paris and the Prefecture of Île-de-France were not able to meet us in the early morning. The prefect of police had to be expressed in 10 hours to make a point about the evacuation ongoing. “We’re at the two-thirds,” we slip a police source.
Late Tuesday night, the movement citizen Night standing installed Republic Square, also in the northeast of Paris, called on social networks sympathizers to join the school Wednesday morning, the day of the “expulsion” of the institution. Seized by the Regional Council of Ile-de-France, the Paris Administrative Court ordered on April 29, with a grace period of 72 hours, the evacuation of the school. At the hearing on the complaint filed by the President of the Regional Council Valérie Pécresse (LR), the collective La Chapelle standing supporting these migrants were valued at “just under 300 people” who occupied the 8,000 square meters of premises .
(With AFP)
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