Police Evict Hundreds of Migrants from Paris Theatre after Free Show Turned Into Three Month ‘Occupation’

breitbart ^ | 19 Mar 2025 | rt Zindulka

[dennisw]

Months after hundreds of migrants effectively took over the Théâtre de la Gaîté Lyrique in Paris, police finally forcibly evicted them in the early hours of Tuesday morning.

At around 6 am Paris time, anti-riot CRS police broke through a line of far-left protesters to clear around 450 migrants from the historic Théâtre de la Gaîté, which had been occupied for over three months by migrants demanding the French government provide them accommodation.

According to police, 46 people were arrested as clashes broke out between officers. Paris Police Prefect Laurent Nuñez accused “elected officials [and] ultra-left activists” of having “come to prevent this operation,” broadcaster BFMTV reports.

Nuñez ordered that the 19th-century theatre be evacuated of the hundreds of mostly sub-Saharan African migrants on Monday, calling the occupation of the building a threat to “public order”.

The police said that since the start of the occupation of the building in December, there had been several knife fights within the theatre and that complaints had been made against some of the migrants. They also argued that the building was not suited to house so many people and that it represented a fire risk.

The left-wing Mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, said: “At this stage this is what had to be done because the situation was very complicated, very tense and very dangerous for these migrants.”

[ConservativeMind]

Professional bums.

[dennisw]

Mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo..........

She is a so called migrant born in Spain and a commie. What a cluster for the native born authentic French, screwing themselves by putting/voting such incompetent, mind numbed females into power

[Allegra]

Can you imagine the smell in that theater? And it’s probably been destroyed, much in the manner of a rat infestation. 😖

[dennisw]

à bas Les French!!!... He/she is screaming

[dennisw]

My guess, 80% of these useless “migrants” are from their former African colonies/ But then Sweden, that never had colonies, gets similarly invaded.

[Bob434]

Took them 3 mo ths to evict them? The moment they refused to leave, they were trespassing! Imagine if the Jan 6 protestors sat down and refused to leave for a bunch of mo ths? The ,eft would have forced them out immediately and arrested them- oh wait, they did arrest them immediately!

[SpaceBar]

Can you imagine the smell in that theater?

My first thought too. The entire inside is probably trashed beyond recognition. It will have to be completely gutted at great cost.

[Wuli]

Thank you Angela Merkel. /sarc

[Bon of Babble]

Imagine what the inside of that theater looks like now - I suspect it was used as a toilet and is now a total loss.p

If the French had any sense, they’d pull a Trump move and escort each of the “refugees” onto waiting airplanes for a quick one-way trip out of the country.

[cpdiii]

I am so damn tired of the media calling them migrants. My wife is from Mexico, she came here legally and gained her multiple degrees in our universities. Her father paid out of country tuition to UT which is actually greater than out of state tuition. She became a US citizen the legal way.

My wife is a migrant, those that cross illegally are ILLEGAL ALIENS

When was the last time you heard the main stream media use the term "ILLEGAL ALIEN"?

[dennisw]

They are called migrants, like the birds/swallows that fly into San Capistrano every spring.
The media calls them migrants, so that so that legals, illegals, fake asylum seekers, border jumpers, tourist visa overstayers, all get lumped together. To confuse Democrats and other low-information voters

[Thank You Rush]

I guess we have to assume that the theater wasn’t being used for its original purposes. I couldn’t find anything about that. Still seems like SOMEONE in authority would have been on it immediately...What WILL France fight for?

[9YearLurker]

So for the good of the “migrants”...

[AZJeep]

The incident began when the theatre hosted a conference on refugees in December, which saw hundreds of migrants from Africa let into the event for free.

Then they refused to leave.

The theater was run by some lefties, using it for immigration advocacy and other WOKE project.
They got the taste of their own medicine!

[mass55th]

It took Macron and Paris police three months to come up with a plan to remove hundreds of migrants from a theater where a conference on migrants was held back in December? Then after all that, they only arrested 46 while clearing the theater?

And Macron plans on beating Russia? Good luck with that.

[mass55th]

"My guess, 80% of these useless “migrants” are from their former African colonies"

You'd be correct. Article says "hundreds of mostly sub-Saharan African migrants."

[ridesthemiles]

LIKE THE NEW ORLEANS DOME WITH KATRINA???