Protesters Clash With Police Evicting Migrants From School In Paris

On Wednesday, French riot police used tear gas against protesters trying to block the removal of migrants from an empty Paris high school. The school had been under renovation and was occupied by migrants for the past two weeks. Times Live reports: Protesters, some masked and hooded, had formed a human chain around the high school in the north of the French capital to try to prevent police entering in the early morning raid. Demonstrators pelted the police with objects and chanted “everyone hates the police”, an AFP journalist saw. Police entered the school by forcing their way in through another door where tables and chairs were piled up to try to block their passage. “This morning the police gassed us and pushed us out of the way. At midnight we built a barrier of tables and chairs, but they moved it all out of the way,” said Emmanuel, a Ghanaian in his 20s who left the school when the police entered. “It’s better here than being on the street,” he said. “I don’t know where they want to take us.” The school is currently closed for renovation works and it was empty when 150 migrants occupied part of the building on [...]