Thread: France arrests 21 after hundreds of African migrants occupy Pantheon

France on Saturday detained 21 African migrants who surged into the Pantheon in Paris to push their claims for regularised status, police said.

The 21 will be held pending investigation into potentially "violating legislation on foreigners," the local prefecture said.

One demonstrator was also detained on a charge of violent behaviour against a police officer and was due to face a magistrate Sunday, the Paris prosecutor said.

A small crowd gathered outside the police commissariat in Paris' fifth district where the migrants were detained. Some brandished placards urging the authorities to "free the gilets noirs (black vests)" and "police racists," according to an AFP photographer.

The "Black Vests" is a Paris-based migrant association that takes its name from the "yellow vest" anti-government protest movement.

French authorities had arrested 37 people on Friday after around 700 undocumented migrants stormed the Pantheon, the final resting place of France's greatest non-military luminaries including the writers Voltaire, Victor Hugo and Emile Zola.

In a statement Friday, the Black Vest protesters said they wanted "papers and housing for everyone", describing themselves as "the undocumented, the voiceless and the faceless of the French Republic".

They also demanded a meeting with Prime Minister Edouard Philippe.

After the migrants were Friday brought out of the Pantheon Philippe tweeted the need to respect "the rule of law which means respect for the rules that apply to the right to remain, respect for public monuments and for the memory they represent".

The "Black Vests" are known for staging headline-grabbing protests in support of the undocumented.

In June, they briefly occupied the headquarters of the Paris-based catering and property Elior Group and in May its activists occupied a terminal at the city's Charles De Gaulle airport against "Air France's collaboration" in the deportation of undocumented migrants.

France arrests 21 after hundreds of African migrants occupy Pantheon

They are violent and destructive where they come from or they would not be leaving by the millions. They destroy their countries and leave and now destroy ours. Their "better life" BS is our nightmare!

Send them back! They come to our countries and comment violent attacks against us and mouth off in our streets. Omar is the poster child for no more refugees from anywhere! We do not want this in America. We are sick of this invasion of our countries. They need to stay home and solve their own problems. Millions of strong MEN pouring over our borders screaming their demands and destroying our communities. Their women are pregnant and have 8-10 kids they cannot afford to feed, they do not work. It is disgusting!

They cause problems in the workplace. We foot the bill for their free stuff! No one benefits from this invasion.

10 year moratorium on all immigration and clean this mess up. They are taking over entire cities, they do not assimilate, they disrespect our citizens, our laws, they trash our parks, roads, the neighborhoods with garbage. This is alarming what is going on and our government officials refuse to protect us from this violent invasion of our countries by these foreigners!

Load them up and deport them!

We need to shut our own border down until USA and Mexico deports them all.

Now Mexico is pissed and does not want them! Why they hell do they think we want them? We do not. They have gotten away with shoving millions of people from the whole world over our border and they make BILLIONS off of their human trafficking. Now they are backed up on their side...how does it feel Mexico? Not so good. Are the Mexican's racist for not wanting them either?

SHIP THEM BACK NOW!

THIS IS THE PICTURE OF THESE "HUMAN BEINGS" WHO WANT RIGHTS!!! RABID, ANGRY, PEOPLE WHO HAVE NO RESPECT FOR THEMSELVES OR THE COUNTRIES THEY INVADE.

GO GET YOUR "HUMAN RIGHTS" BACK HOME AND ACT LIKE "HUMAN BEINGS" THERE!

I have the same feeling than you Beezer ,every migrants push again a little bite far their violence against our people and in our countries .