French police evict migrants from makeshift camp next to Paris City Hall
POLICE evicted migrants from a makeshift tent camp next to the Paris City Hall early today,in the latest clear-out of homeless people that aid groups allege is a campaign to beautify the French capital ahead of the summer Olympics.
In an operation that began before dawn, police woke around 100 teenage boys and young men from West Africa, telling them to pack their tents and belongings.
Paris region officials told the men, many of them minors and in the process of seeking residency papers, that they could be housed temporarily in Angers, a city 150 miles away in the Loire region, if they wished.
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