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Paris police under fire for forcing migrants from tent camp
2020-11-25
[AlAhram] Police lifted tents with migrants colonists inside, shaking them until they tumbled to the ground, and those who resisted were kicked or beaten with batons, according to the head of Doctors Without Borders in La Belle France, Corinne Torre.

Gay Paree police are under government orders to explain themselves after officers were filmed tossing migrants colonists out of tents while evacuating a makeshift camp in the French capital.

Aid groups were working Tuesday to find temporary lodging for a few hundred migrants colonists forcibly removed from the short-lived camp on the Place de la Republique in eastern Gay Paree on Monday night.

Some images of the evacuation filmed by journalists and activists shocked even La Belle France's tough-talking interior minister, Gerald Darmanin, who tweeted that he ordered the Gay Paree police chief to provide a report Tuesday on what happened.

Police lifted tents with migrants colonists inside, shaking them until they tumbled to the ground, and those who resisted were kicked or beaten with batons, according to the head of Doctors Without Borders in La Belle France, Corinne Torre.

Images shared online showed activists and local officials shouting and trying to block police from dislodging the migrants colonists. Torre, who witnessed the evacuation, said several people sought treatment for injuries from her aid group, known by its French acronym MSF.

The Gay Paree police headquarters said the Republique camp was evacuated because it was illegal and ``invited'' the migrants colonists to seek lodging elsewhere offered by the state or aid groups.

Aid groups and Gay Paree politicians said they set up the tents to call attention to the plight of hundreds of migrants colonists who were kicked out of another camp in the shadow of La Belle France's national stadium last week and have been sleeping in the streets since then for lack of other options.

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. Some have been refused asylum while others are in bureaucratic limbo while they try to apply, Torre said.

The rough evacuation came the day before La Belle France's parliament is set to vote Tuesday on a draft law meant to expand some police powers and provide greater protection to police. It notably makes it a crime to publish images of coppers with intent to cause them harm, a measure that has prompted repeated protests by civil liberties campaigners and media freedom groups.
Posted by:trailing wife

#3  MSF is an abbreviation, not an acronym. Geeesh.

Posted by: Clem   2020-11-25 07:08  

#2  Some French perspective. You may draw your own conclusions or parallels. (lengthy Aljazeera video with interesting cinematography.)
Posted by: Besoeker   2020-11-25 05:05  

#1  Camp des Saints diables
Posted by: Gruck Flusong9737   2020-11-25 01:18  

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