An unauthorized demonstration, bringing together several thousand people, took place Saturday in Paris to call for the regularization of undocumented migrants, severely hit by the health crisis. According to the organizers, a new demonstration is planned for June 20. 

Several thousand undocumented migrants and sympathizers demonstrated Saturday in Paris, despite the ban by the police headquarters, to call for the "regularization" of undocumented migrants, who, according to the organizers, "suffered the most from the crisis sanitary ".

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At the call of 195 organizations, the demonstration - which gathered 5,500 people according to the police headquarters (PP) -, left in the early afternoon from the places of the Opera and the Madeleine, before joining in the calm Place de la République, where the participants were dispersed at the end of the day. 

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Almost 100 people arrested

The security forces tried, by using tear gas, to prevent the start of the demonstration which had not been authorized by the prefecture of police, alleging "health risks" in relation to a rally of more than 10 people. According to the prefecture, 98 people were arrested.

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"We are here to make visible the invisible, the undocumented who are the most suffering from this health crisis because they live in overcrowded homes in which social distancing, hygiene are not compatible with health rules for fight against the coronavirus ", explained by telephone to AFP Benoit Clément, from Solidaires Paris.

A "sanitary bomb"

"For these populations, the current health crisis is becoming a veritable health bomb. They are without rights, without income and without hope of access to the benefits offered by the State. For them and for them, there is has no free access to care and no other way to survive than to seek means of subsistence ", denounce in a joint press release these organizations, which call for a new mobilization on June 20