France: Tents piled up as police scuffle with pro-refugee protesters in Paris
Migrant situation 2020PoliticsSociety
November 24, 2020 at 04:04 GMT +00:00 · Published
Police officers scuffled with pro-refugee protesters who set up tents in central Paris' Place de la Republique on Monday, following last week's evacuation of the Saint-Denis migrant camp. Tents were later seen piled up in the square.
"We are trying to alert the Ministry of Health and obviously the Ministry of the Interior but there is a policy carried out by the Ministry of the Interior, a migration policy which is totally the opposite of health policy," siad head of MSF mission (Medicine Without Borders) in France Corinne Torre.
On November 17, a police operation dislodged 2,500 refugees from the camp located in the north of Paris. Around 800 of them remain without a lodging solution, according to the pro-migrant activist group Utopia 56.