In a worrying move for the Sarkozy police, opposition grows far beyond the circle of activists. A street riot erupted on tuesday when police started again to embark "sans papier" ("illegal" immigrants) at "Chateau-Rouge" in central Paris. As this had been going on for weeks, alerts were again promptly posted on Paris Indymedia, but this time, activists who had been able to go there to protest were happily surprised to find support from the local population, who joined in action, so much so that the police could only retreat.
People have been shocked recently by the brutal treatment of "sans-papiers", and also the repression campaign that followed on the three dramatic building fires of this summer in Paris, killing mainly immigrants : people continue to be brutally expelled by the police from supposedly insecure building, without prior notice. These are not squats (repression against squats is also accelerating of course) but flats were people pay rent, in some cases have lived there over 48 years, to be left one morning in the street with nothing more that the next night offered.
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