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Paris police ordered to explain brutal eviction at migrant camp
Paris police have been ordered by the French Government to explain themselves after officers were filmed tossing migrants out of tents while evacuating a makeshift camp in the French capital.
Key points:
- Paris police were ordered to provide a report on what happened
- Images show police lifting tents with migrants still inside
- Most migrants are from Afghanistan, Somalia and Eritrea
Aid groups have been trying to find temporary lodging for a few hundred migrants forcibly removed from the camp on the Place de la Republique in eastern Paris on Monday night (local time).
Some images of the evacuation filmed by journalists and activists shocked even France’s tough-talking Interior Minister, Gerald Darmanin, who tweeted that he’s ordered the Paris…
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