Rally against violence after the brutal evacuation of a migrant camp in Paris
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Several hundred people gathered on Tuesday evening in the calm Place de la République in Paris.
REUTERS - GONZALO FUENTES
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In France, several hundred people gathered on Tuesday evening at Place de la République in Paris to denounce the violence that took place in the same place the day before.
The police brutally evacuated Afghan migrants who had just set up their tents, a few days after their evacuation from a camp in Saint Denis, in the suburbs.
The images that circulated on social networks shocked many French people.
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Like most demonstrators, it was the images of the police intervention that pushed Lucie, 21, or Quentin, 33, to join the Place de la République with their improvised sign.
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There, it said:
" More housing, less tear gas. ""
It is ultra violent what there was on this place.
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We found that, of course, unacceptable.
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He wrote there:
'Democracy'.
The values - freedom, equality, fraternity - cannot be found in the actions of our leaders.
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Because what happened yesterday is unbearable.
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The Minister of the Interior may have
requested an investigation
from the police, this septuagenarian is not at all reassured.
She came with two friends to express it.
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It's outright demagoguery.
Thinking all the same that they went there a little hard, they try to fall in line more or less, but they think no less, I have the impression.
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Two ministers also called for the immediate accommodation of the expelled migrants on Monday evening.
The associations are counting on it.
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We give them three days to offer accommodation solutions to everyone where we will be even more in front of the town hall to demand that everyone be taken care of
", warns Maël de Marcellus, coordinator of Utopia 56 in Paris .
At the beginning of September, the same operation had only lasted a few hours.
Nearly 200 people had been
evicted by the police
.
But the town hall had opened a room to welcome them.
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Also to listen: Evacuation of migrants in Paris: "The town hall of Paris must position itself politically"
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