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   “Although staff received the men, and listened to their demands, the   
   members of the collective did not wish to enter into any dialogue,   
   instead contenting themselves with denouncing government policy.”   
      
      
   14 Wounded After Illegal Migrants Storm Town Hall to Protest France’s   
   Immigration Laws   
      
      
   A crowd of around 200 illegal migrants from Africa stormed Alfortville   
   town hall on Tuesday morning, demanding the government relax criteria   
   for regularisation and give them residence papers. Illegal migrants   
   occupied the town hall for about an hour, frightening members of the   
   public in the building as well as staff who had to retreat to their   
   offices.   
      
   The migrants, who work at Rungis International Market, the world’s largest   
   wholesale food market, began piling into the town hall at around 8.30 am, but   
   staff didn’t notice their arrival until it was “too late”, according to   
   Le Parisien.   
      
   When officers arrived to break up the protest and evacuate the town hall, they   
   were forced to use tear gas as a group of around forty illegal immigrants were   
   blocking access to the building. Le Parisien reports that following clashes,   
   14 people received    
   medical treatment with three hospitalised.   
      
      
      
   “This illegal occupation prevented Alfortvillians from accessing public   
   services throughout the morning, and caused anxiety among town hall staff and   
   families who were already present in the building,” the commune’s   
   Socialist mayor Luc Carvounas    
   said in a statement.   
      
   “Although staff received the men, and listened to their demands, the members   
   of the collective did not wish to enter into any dialogue, instead contenting   
   themselves with denouncing government policy.”   
      
   Suggesting the protest was linked to the far left, the mayor denounced the   
   action as having been “exploitation of human misery for political   
   purposes”.   
      
   Carvounas argued that it is unreasonable for far left groups to target his   
   town hall, “since, in October 2015, Alfortville was one of the first   
   communes in France to declare itself in favour of welcoming migrants”.   
      
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