Residents of homeless migrant camp outside Paris City Hall given temporary shelter after protest

A makeshift camp

A makeshift camp erected outside the office of the French capital’s mayor was removed by police on Friday after more than 300 protesting migrants were provided temporary shelter by the Paris authorities.

Some 250 tents housing 320 migrants mostly from sub-Saharan Africa, including children and pregnant women, were set up outside the iconic Hotel de Ville in Paris on Thursday evening. Together with activists from the charity Utopia 56, the group staged the protest to demand that asylum seekers who come to France are provided a stable roof over their heads.

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