Global News published this video item, entitled “Afghan migrant recalls Paris police raid on refugee camp” – below is their description.
A phone, phone charger, sunglasses, documents to seek asylum, and the clothes on his back – that’s all is left of Murtaza Khademi’s belongings after he was expelled from his tent on Monday night by police in Paris. Khademi told Reuters that he left his home in Afghanistan and smuggled himself into France because he thought he would be safe, but this week he encountered a different side of Europe: a police operation in which, he said, he was beaten with a truncheon. “The police forces had no mercy. We thought they were humane people,” he said on Tuesday night near a railway station in Paris’ north, where charities were distributing food. “They are not like that at all.” Khademi was among dozens of migrants and asylum seekers who had pitched pop-up tents on a central Paris square in an organized protest intended to attract attention to their precarious living conditions. Police in riot gear moved in to disperse the protest on Monday night. Officers tussled with protesters as they tried to drag them out of the tents. Khademi, 27, said he was inside his tent when the police arrived and beat him with batons. Officials said the protest was illegal so police were within their rights to disperse it. For more info, please go to https://globalnews.ca/news/7480846/paris-police-investigation-removal-migrant-camp/ Subscribe to Global News Channel HERE: http://bit.ly/20fcXDc Like Global News on Facebook HERE: http://bit.ly/255GMJQ Follow Global News on Twitter HERE: http://bit.ly/1Toz8mt Follow Global News on Instagram HERE: https://bit.ly/2QZaZIB #GlobalNews
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