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The activists had set up 500 tents on the famous Place de la République in Paris. A new and visible refugee camp in the middle of the French capital. But the migrants couldn’t stay there for long. Hundreds of people had to leave the tents. Meanwhile, the place has been cleared.
Police arrived about an hour after the camp was set up. Officers took the tents, some of which were still refugees. Later they also used tear gas against migrants and their supporters.
You are too violent. We just want a roof over our heads, ”said Afghan refugee Shahbuddin, according to the AFP news agency. “We are here to show that we have nowhere to go,” said Murtasa of Afghanistan.
With the camp in the central square, aid organizations wanted to draw attention to the situation of immigrants in France. Already in the summer, aid organizations had set up tents in a green area near the Place de la République to specifically draw attention to the situation of underage migrants.
The Interior Minister describes the images as “shocking”
Police had dissolved a large refugee camp under a motorway access road in the Parisian suburb of Saint-Denis last week. According to various sources, between 3,000 and 4,000 migrants had lived there in inhumane conditions. According to the authorities, the people were treated and transferred to shelters. Yet activists speak of hundreds of migrants who have since been made homeless.
French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin called the images of the current evacuation from the camp “shocking.” He requested a report from the prefect of police. As soon as it is available, it will decide on further steps, Darmanin wrote on Twitter.
The prefecture of police and the prefecture of the Île-de-France region declared in a joint statement that the construction of unauthorized refugee camps was “unacceptable”. The police intervened to end the “illegal occupation of public space”.
