Clashes as French police clear migrants from Paris school

May 04, 2016 15:59

Police used tear gas today to disperse protesters as they evacuated a high school under renovation in Paris that has been occupied by migrants for two weeks.

Protesters, some masked and hooded, had formed a human chain around the high school in the north of the French capital to try to prevent police entering in the early morning raid.

Demonstrators pelted the police with objects and chanted "everyone hates the police", said journalists.

Police entered the school by forcing their way in through another door where tables and chairs were piled up to try to block their passage.

"This morning, the police gassed us and pushed us out of the way. At midnight, we built a barrier of tables and chairs, but they moved it all out of the way," said Emmanuel, a Ghanaian in his 20s who left the school when the police entered.

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