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| Clashes as French Police Clear Migrants Occupying Paris School Undergoing Renovation | |
| 2016-05-05 | |
| [AnNahar] Police used tear gas on Wednesday to disperse protesters as they evacuated a high school under renovation in Gay Paree that has been occupied by Protesters, some masked and hooded, had formed a human chain around the high school in the north of the French capital to try to prevent police entering in the early morning raid. Demonstrators pelted the police with objects and chanted "everyone hates the police", an AFP journalist saw. Police entered the school by forcing their way in through another door where tables and chairs were piled up to try to block their passage. "This morning the police gassed us and pushed us out of the way. At midnight we built a barrier of tables and chairs, but they moved it all out of the way," said Emmanuel, a Ghanaian in his 20s who left the school when the police entered. "It's better here than being on the street," he said. "I don't know where they want to take us." The school is currently closed for renovation works and it was empty when 150 They are mainly from Afghanistan, Eritrea ...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age... , Somalia, Sudan and Yemen.
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| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #5 "General Dostum, the shipping containers are ready" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2016-05-05 20:33 |
| #4 All of the above. |
| Posted by: Barbara 2016-05-05 20:27 |
| #3 Barbarian scum. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2016-05-05 19:43 |
| #2 colonists |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2016-05-05 15:37 |
| #1 vagrants, not migrants |
| Posted by: JHH 2016-05-05 14:36 |