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Europe
Police clear camp as migrant debate heats up in France
2018-06-01
More on this report fom yesterday.
[DAWN] Security forces cleared more than 1,000 people from a sprawling migrant camp in the French capital on Wednesday, the latest in a series of episodes that have thrust the issue of illegal immigration back into the spotlight.

About 1,700 people, mainly from Sudan, Somalia and 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...
, were living in the "Millenaire", or Millennium, camp underneath the main Gay Paree ring road near the Porte de la Villette in the northeast of the capital.

But regional prefect Michel Cadot later said that just 1,016 migrants colonists had been removed, since many residents had fled after learning the dawn operation was imminent.

They will be housed temporarily at more than 20 sites across the Gay Paree region while the authorities check their identities, Interior Minister Gerard Collomb said in a statement.

The operation came just days after a young Malian was honoured with fast-track citizenship following his daring rescue of a child hanging from a balcony.

It also coincided with the trial of a 72-year-old woman in the Mediterranean city of Nice for helping two Guinean teenagers cross into the country from Italia.

Three other people will face trial on Thursday for helping migrants colonists enter La Belle France illegally, even as Grenoble this week honoured a farmer convicted of guiding migrants colonists across the Alps by bestowing him with the city’s official medal.

Two similar camps migrant camps in the capital, one along the Canal St Martin, which houses 800 mostly Afghan migrants colonists, and another of 300-400 at the Porte de la Chapelle, are set to be evacuated soon, Cadot said.

Posted by:Fred

#7  Delightful, Zenobia F.
Posted by: trailing wife   2018-06-01 23:37  

#6  "Fine," even. Vowels. And subjunctiev. Why do they hate me?
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220   2018-06-01 19:25  

#5  "They look like Nice boys, but they're skinny,"
Says Granny, of two guys from Guinea,
So she fattens them on
Aubergine parmesane
"Pour servir les migrants!" Fin e Fini.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220   2018-06-01 19:14  

#4  It's okay when they use slurs, Frank!
Posted by: Raj   2018-06-01 14:42  

#3  helping two Guinean teenagers cross into the country from Italia.

Ummmmm...slur!
Posted by: Frank G   2018-06-01 14:32  

#2  I understand there is room on the West Bank.
Posted by: Skidmark   2018-06-01 06:57  

#1  but where are they going to move them???

I worry they will send them to Therasaistan.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2018-06-01 05:37  

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