700 undocumented people ask the Paris Pantheon to be regularized | Chronic

Several hundred people from the movement for the defense of migrants "Black vests" They occupied this Friday for a few hours the main ship of the Pantheon, in Paris, to denounce the situation of undocumented migrants and demand the regularization of those living in unhygienic spaces.

The group was evacuated unhindered by law enforcement officials three hours after the start of the protest, which was also supported by some public officials, such as the senator of the Green Party. Esther Benbbada.

About 700 migrants and supporters, according to participants quoted by the newspaper Le Parisien, occupied at noon this imposing building located in the Latin Quarter of Paris to honor the great characters who have marked the history of France.

The Paris Police Prefecture, which ordered the evacuation, said on Twitter that it was illegal form entry and communicated the purpose of the operation.

"Many people have lived without rights for years, we occupy the Pantheon to demand an exceptional regularization of the Prime Minister, and no exceptional regularization has occurred since the arrival in power of François Mitterrand (in 1981). It's time for one, " said Laurent, a member of an badociation, who helped support protesters.

"The Pantheon is a symbol of great men, inside there are symbols of the fight against slavery, we fight against slavery of the third millennium", he explained in statements to the newspaper Libération.

In a letter to the French Prime Minister, Édouard Philippethe Black Vests, integrated by migrants from 43 shelters in the Paris region but also by several people in street situations, ask the Prime Minister to receive them to hear their demands and set in motion the conditions of a collective regularization of all undocumented migrants, the EFE news agency reported.

This group is not related to the movement of "yellow jackets", also appeared in late 2018, but adopted a similar name to take advantage of the media echo of these protesters.

In November 2008, they led a first action with a group of 400 migrants who had demonstrated in front of the National Museum of Immigration History. Later, another delegation appeared before the French Comedy and since then, it regularly carries out protest actions on points emblematic of the French capital.

In this case, it was at the Pantheon, a national monument where the great characters of the history of France are based, like politicians. Jean Jaurès and Simone Veil, and writers Voltaire and Victor Hugo, among others.

Almost at the same time, the mayor of Paris announced that she would hand over the Grand Vermei Medal, the city's most important prize to German activists. Carola Rackete and Pia Klemp, captains of the rescue ship "Sea Watch 3", sign of the commitment of the French capital in respect of human rights.

"In order to mark the solidarity and commitment of Paris in respect of human rights, the mayor will hand over the Grand Vermeil to the two captains of the ship Sea Watch 3"said the municipality in a statement.

In addition, he announced that they would give an endowment of 100,000 euros in urgent aid concept to the Mediterranean SOS Association for a new rescue mission of migrants on the high seas.