Shades of "Camp of the Saints"
The French capital seems to have been contaminated by the same phenomenon which has already stricken Belgium.
According to the representative of a French union defending illegal migrants, Bahija Benkouka, a group of people, claiming the regularisation of their situation, occupied Sunday evening the St Merri Church.
The non-regularised protestors also claim (want?) the cancellation of Sarkozy's project law on immigration which was approved on Thursday by the French parliament.
The contacts between the church's priest and the group's representative Benkouka have not yet yielded any results.
St Merri's occupiers have probably followed the example of the illegal migrants who, after occupying Saint-Boniface Church in Belgium's Ixelles Commune, have been granted regularisation.
The Saint-Boniface Church example was followed in several Belgian cities, namely Brussels, Cherleroi, Mons, Namur, LaLouvière, Gand, Anvers and Verviers.
Now, the arm-twisting occupation seems to have been adopted outside Belgium.
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