Twenty-one protesters, among the undocumented who came to claim their regularization by occupying the Pantheon, Friday, July 12 in Paris, were placed in "administrative detention".
The purpose of this 24-hour visit is to verify the right to stay for foreigners, a source close to the file said on Saturday.
In addition, a protester was arrested and placed in custody for "willful acts of violence against a person holding public authority". The latter must be presented Sunday to a magistrate of the prosecution who will decide on possible legal action, according to the Paris prosecutor.
"Free the black vests"
In front of the police station of the 5th district, where the arrested people had been taken, about twenty people gathered at midday, proclaiming, "free the black vests" or "racist police".
Of the hundreds of protesters gathered Friday at the Pantheon, 37 were arrested "following identity checks," a police source said.
According to the participants, about 700 migrants and their supporters have invested the Pantheon at the initiative of the collectives "black vests" and "La Chapelle debout", which support undocumented migrants.
The place, emblematic of the French Republic, had been gradually evacuated at the end of the afternoon. "France is a state of law, in all that implies: respect for the rules that apply to the right to stay, respect for public monuments and the memory they represent," said the Prime Minister, Edouard Philippe, in a tweet.
All those who entered the # Pantheon were evacuated. France is a state of law, in all that implies: respect for the rules that apply to the right to stay, respect for public monuments and the memory they represent.
Edouard Philippe (@EPhilippePM) July 12, 2019Migrants and collectives - including the "black vests" who routinely carry out punches in support of undocumented migrants - had chosen the Pantheon for its "great men" and "symbols of the fight against slavery".
With AFP