French police have evicted migrants from a makeshift camp in Paris a few steps from the River Seine in the latest operation in what aid groups call a campaign of “social cleansing” ahead of the Summer Olympics. Around 30 teenage boys and young men from West Africa were woken before dawn by officers and urged […]
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Police clear out a migrant camp in central Paris. Activists say it’s a pre-Olympics sweep
PARIS (AP) — French police evicted migrants from a makeshift camp in Paris a few steps away from the Seine River on Tuesday, the latest operation in what aid groups call a campaign of ‘’social cleansing” ahead of the Summer Olympics. Before dawn on an unusually cold April morning, around 30 teenage boys and young […]