Police Evict Hundreds of Migrants from Paris Theatre after Free Show Turned Into Three Month ‘Occupation’

Months after hundreds of migrants effectively took over the Théâtre de la Gaîté Lyrique in Paris, police finally forcibly evicted them in the early hours of Tuesday morning. At around 6 am Paris time, anti-riot CRS police broke through a line of far-left protesters to clear around 450 migrants from the historic Théâtre de la Gaîté, which had been occupied for over three months by migrants demanding the French government provide them accommodation. According to police, 46 people were arrested as clashes broke out between officers. Paris Police Prefect Laurent Nuñez accused “elected officials [and] ultra-left activists” of having “come...