Police Remove Migrant and Homeless Tents in Central Paris

Dozens of tents set up at Place de la Bastille, in central Paris, were removed by police on Tuesday, August 6, in the midst of the Paris Olympic Games.

According to the French charity Right to Accomodation (DAL, or “Droit au Logement” in French), the people who set up the tents were invited to do so by the charity and were supposed by the NGO Utopia 56.

DAL said the police chief informed the charity of the “intention to make an arrest prohibiting this wild facility.”

Footage by Nicolas Mercier shows police officers removing dozens of tents from Place de la Bastille, as demonstrators are heard chanting “We’re not mean, we want accommodation!” ("On est pas m

Video transcript

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