Between 200 and 300 migrants, asylum seekers or undocumented migrants attempted to enter the Comédie-Française on Sunday evening in Paris to challenge the theater administrator to obtain their regularization, according to a journalist AFP.
At about 9 pm, a small group of migrants attempted to enter the Comédie Française site in the center of the capital before being rejected by the guards for the first time. More than 200 other migrants, mostly from sub-Saharan Africa, joined them and again tried to force the entrance of the famous institution where Lucrezia Borgia was played by Victor Hugo whose performance they wanted to interrupt. An appointment with Christophe Castaner by the administrator of the Comédie-Française
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Arrived very quickly, the police fired a tear gas grenade.
This action was initiated by the migrant collective “La Chapelle debout” and the “Sans-Papiers 75” collective. The original goal was to challenge the manager of the Comédie Française, Éric Ruf, to arrange an appointment with Minister of the Interior Christophe Castaner to discuss their regularization.
“I came here to regulate”
“It is not the theater we were looking for, but the deputy leader who is directly appointed by those who have the mission to hunt us down” , could read on a flyer that is distributed on the spot.
“I’ve had enough, I’ve come here to regulate,” said AFP, Abdoulaye, a 35-year-old undocumented Malian cook who works in France since 201
1. “I want papers, a place to sleep and caring Care, “said Abdallah, a 32-year-old Sudanese who arrived in France two years ago and sleeps” on the street “. , under a bridge “.