Here come the #GiletsNoirs Gilets Noir consists of illegal migrants who sleep on the streets of Paris & who now demand housing, citizenship or permanent residency rights. pic.twitter.com/mkdsp5x4vI— David Vance (@DVATW) July 13, 2019
‘Black Vest’ protesters occupy Pantheon in #Paris, demand papers for all illegal migrants— RT (@RT_com) July 13, 2019
MORE: https://t.co/9o1usiJm4S pic.twitter.com/XK5lKD8I0o
Today, hundreds of Africans stormed &now occupy one of the most sacred places in #France— BasedPoland (@BasedPoland) July 12, 2019
The #Panthéon church houses graves of national heroes (Voltaire, Hugo, Zola &Curie)
The group calls itself #GiletsNoir (Black Vests) & demands papers for all undocumented/illegal migrants🤔 pic.twitter.com/pB4K0V6dzr
The #GiletsNoirs strike again in Paris!— Luke Butterly (@lukejbutterly) July 12, 2019
"We, immigrants without papers, residents of shelters and of the streets, occupy the Panthéon, the graves of your great citizens...to demand the Prime Minister give papers to all undocumented migrants in France." pic.twitter.com/2ZI3ZC72gc
Malgré la présence policière renforcée, les #GiletsNoirs continuent de mettre l'ambiance au #Pantheon : "Qu'est-ce qu'on veut ? Des papiers ! Pour qui ? Pour tous !" pic.twitter.com/xYCcTLeNA9— Thomas Clerget (@Thomas_Clerget) July 12, 2019
The situation is tense, more police are arriving. https://t.co/KvO4y20U2c— Luke Butterly (@lukejbutterly) July 12, 2019
They don't have the right to DEMAND anything from anyone. France doesn't owe them shit. Most especially after they have defiled one of their monuments in their host nation. They're disrupting tourism that brings revenue to the country. Last month they disrupted a terminal at an airport in France. These ARE NOT PEACEFUL PROTESTS. This is so wrong. (emphasis mine)News.com.au, Australia
written by AFP staff
Saturday July 13, 2019
Tourists were evacuated from a Paris landmark on Friday as hundreds of illegal immigrants stormed in demanding “papers”.
Hundreds of illegal immigrants surged into the Pantheon in central Paris on Friday, briefly occupying the vaunted memorial complex to demand talks with the prime minister on regularising their status, activists said.
Around 700 migrants and their supporters joined the demonstration, with some pushing into the historic complex at around midday on Friday, a member of the Chapelle Debout collective said.
Footage posted on Twitter from inside the building’s main dome showed hundreds of people waving papers in the air shouting “Black vests, black vests!” and “What do we want? Papers!”
The so-called “Black Vests” is a Paris-based migrant association that takes its name from the “yellow vest” anti-government protest movement.
As they went inside, tourists were evacuated from the Pantheon, which is the final resting place of France’s greatest non-military luminaries including the writers Voltaire, Victor Hugo and Emile Zola.
Outside, hundreds more were gathered under the watchful eyes of a heavy police presence.
In a statement, the Black Vest protesters said they wanted “papers and housing for everyone”, describing themselves as “the undocumented, the voiceless and the faceless of the French Republic”.
“We don’t want to negotiate with the interior minister and his officials any more, we want to talk to Prime Minister Edouard Philippe now!” they wrote.
They stayed there for several hours until they were calmly evacuated through a back entrance midafternoon, AFP correspondents said.
“All of the people who gained entry to the Pantheon have been evacuated,” Philippe tweeted early evening as a police source said 37 arrests had been made.
‘RULE OF LAW’
“France is a country based on the rule of law which means respect for the rules that apply to the right to remain, respect for public monuments and for the memory they represent,” he added.
Some leftist politicians came to the site to offer moral support to the migrants but Marine Le Pen, leader of the far-right National Rally, tweeted her indignation.
“It is UNACCEPTABLE to see protesting illegal aliens occupy, with wholesale impunity, this is the centre of the Republic,” Le Pen said. “Expulsion should be the immigrants’ future — that is the LAW,” she said.
“The Pantheon is a symbol of great men. Inside there are symbols representing the fight against slavery. We are fighting against modern-day slavery,” said Laurent, an activist from French rights group Droits Devant.
“Many people have been living without rights for years. We have done this to ask the prime minister for an exceptional regularisation. There has never been such a thing since (Francois) Mitterand took power (in 1981). It’s about time we had one.”
The “Black Vests” are known for staging headline-grabbing protests in support of illegal immigrants. In June, they briefly occupied the headquarters of the Paris-based Elior Group which works in contract catering and property.
And a month earlier, its activists occupied terminal 2F at the city’s Charles de Gaulle Airport against “Air France’s collaboration” in the deportation of illegal immigrants. 👇
Jamie Sky published on Mar 2, 2018: Migrants Invade Paris Train Station.
Notice how nicely dressed these poor able bodied African male "refugees" are? (emphasis mine)
Medeea Greere published on May 21, 2019: Disturbing: ‘France Does Not Belong to The French!’ 500+ African Migrants Storm Paris Airport. Footage posted on Twitter shows roughly 500 migrants chanting in Terminal 2 of the Charles de Gaulle airport as about a dozen police officers in tactical gear look on. “France does not belong to the French! Everyone has a right to be here!” one person can be heard yelling into a loudspeaker.
The protest was organized by the migrant support group La Chapelle Debout, which said their members call themselves “Black Vests.”
👇 RELATED INFO BELOW 👇
euronews (in English) published on Sep 16, 2016: Paris police clear more than 1,500 migrants from street camp. Police in Paris have evacuated a camp holding around 1,500 migrants who have been living on the streets of the French capital for weeks.
"Most of the illegal migrants relocated were from Afghanistan, Eritrea, and Sudan."
Two operations, one for women and children and another for men, were launched on Friday morning on a stretch of pavement between Jaurès and Stalingrad Metro stops just west of Montmartre.
Most were transported to temporary shelters, where they are expected to receive food and medical treatment.
FRANCE 24 English published on July 7, 2017: France: Police evict thousands of migrants camped in northern Paris.
RT published on June 1, 2018: Migrants moved to wealthy Paris neighborhood, what do locals think? Thousands of migrants in Paris are being cleared from their make-shift shelters along the city's canals.Roughly 200 of them have been resettled in a wealthy district in the French capital. Charlotte Dubenskij went to find out what the residents thought about their new neighbors.
DW News published on March 24, 2019: France: Migrants in a race against Brexit. Hundreds of migrants in France are rushing to cross over to Britain before the Brexit deadline. While smugglers are raising their prices, some refugees are putting out from Calais into the Channel - the world's busiest shipping lane - in dinghies.
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