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France: new demonstrations against the immigration law
Several hundred people demonstrated this Saturday, February 3, in Paris, to demand the repeal of the immigration law.
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Demonstration against the immigration law, in Paris, February 3, 2024. AFP - THOMAS SAMSON
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With our special correspondent on site,
Sylvie Koffi
“
Immigration, Darmanin will not lay down the law
”, “
Welcome to the exiles
”, could we read on signs of the procession which left from Place de la République to reach Place Gambetta. Mariama Sidibé, spokesperson for the coordination of undocumented immigrants, gets carried away: “
It makes me angry, as a woman I know how I had it here in France. Today I am retired, I do not earn half of what I earned while working. So it makes me angry, that's why I'm fighting alongside my comrades so that the injustice stops. We're fed up, we're tired!
»
“
There are no bad guys
”
A law and police checks which are the daily life of Aboubacar Dembélé of the Collective of Undocumented Workers: “I am an undocumented worker. Already the arrests, the facial control has started, they tell us, "bad to the bad, good to the good",
there are no bad guys, the only bad people are the government, it's the police officers who arrest people who are going to work or returning from work, they take them to the police station and they leave with obligations to leave the territory and then they qualify them as threats to public order!
»
Together, they will continue to mobilize until the end, until this immigration law is repealed.
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