Oct. 7 () –
Approximately a hundred activists for the rights of migrants have broken into the Paris City Hall this Friday in a concerted action to ask for decent housing for the foreign population arriving in the country.
The activists of the La Chapelle Debout collective are now in an inner courtyard of the City Hall, where they have begun to raise signs in Arabic and French asking for “Justice for all”, as confirmed by the Police of the French capital to the newspaper ‘Le Figaro’ .
In a press release collected by the same media, the activists criticize a government that “picks up migrants on the street only to throw them back there.” “Paris,” they denounce in a note posted on their Twitter account, “has become a city where Ukrainians and the rich take refuge while (the mayor) Anne Hidalgo ignores the issue.”
“If the City Council does not assume its responsibilities and does not respect its values, it becomes an accomplice in the racist policies that divide the good migrants who ‘deserve’ housing and those who can throw them under a bridge,” adds the group after demanding the Responsible for Housing of the City Council, Ian Brossat, to keep his word by promising a meeting with activists about this crisis last summer.
In recent years, this so-called anti-racist group has staged similar episodes to draw attention to the situation of migrants, such as the break-in at a secondary school in 2016 or an incursion of 600 protesters into the Pantheon in Paris in 2019.
