VIDEOS – One week after the evacuation of La Chapelle camp is Pajol before the hall was the site Monday afternoon a new police operation. About 100 migrants were arrested.
A new evacuation of migrants took place Monday afternoon in the eighteenth arrondissement of Paris. After the dismantling of a camp at the Skytrain La Chapelle last Tuesday, and that of the Church of St. Bernard Friday is a hundred meters away, in front of the Pajol hall, an operation Police took place. According to police sources, 84 people were evacuated.
Illegal had settled there for several days, a handful sleeping the night and the other from the day, including benefit from support associations ( food, clothing). One witness, a shopkeeper in the area, told the Le Figaro that “the security forces arrived to 13 hours” to challenge of migrants, and to conduct identity checks.
Very quickly, left activists and elected arrived on site to form a barrier between the police and migrants. “We were ten elected” explains Douchka Markovic, Councillor EELV eighteenth arrondissement. “We wanted to discuss with representatives of the prefect. We offered to come with the detained migrants, of our own free will, to mediate, to assist in procedures. But this reconciliation was refused.
The police briefly used tear gas to disperse the gathering, questioning several activists.
“It’s already a tough neighborhood, this violence was not necessary. It’s sad, “” said Markovic Douchka.
“The security forces are doing their job”
One by one, the refugees were arrested and taken to a police car parked in front of the hall. The operation took place behind a cordon of police and booed the fifty people came to demonstrate, to which should be added a few onlookers. Slogans “Freedom, Freedom” have blended in the afternoon, and the “Welcome to France”.
Eric Coquerel, national secretary of the Left Party, “is an impossible police operation”. “The police charge the very elect. It’s not their fault, they do their job, but this puts us in an untenable position, “said the one.
” Can someone explain to me the difference between this was doing the right in 1996 to the Church of St. Bernard and what this government? “questioned Twitter national secretary of the Left Party, Alexis Corbiere.
Especially since the operation has left at least one injured. “Nothing was planned, there is no emergency, it’s unbelievable,” fumed Douchka Markovic. A migrant who made a seizure has been supported by firefighters after the evacuation.
“potentially released Migrants’ tonight”
Patrice Latro, Chief of Staff Bernard Boucault, police prefect of Paris, who visited the site, said: “Elected officials are trying to prevent the implementation of an identity check operation of a group of people, probably of foreign origin, which takes place following a request of the public prosecutor. We take them to a place where we will make a case-by-case their situation. “
The representative of the prefect said that those who have made an application for asylum will see their situation studied, and they will be relocated. For others, “however, if there was no application for asylum, and no reason to stay in France, it may mean being transferred to the detention center, or be required to leave a report the territory “.
Some of these migrants may thus find themselves back on the street quickly, potentially from that Monday night. Elected representatives of the environmental group at the Paris council “solemnly asked Anne Hidalgo opening a place of welcome by the city of Paris from Monday night.”
(with AFP)
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