More than 1,000 demonstrators marched from Place de la République to Place du Châtelet in Paris on Friday, December 22, at the call of collectives of undocumented migrants and the March of Solidarity.
More than a thousand people protested on Friday, December 22 in Paris to denounce the adoption of the controversial immigration bill proposed by the Interior Minister, as observed by an AFP journalist.
“Darmanin will not make his law!”
“On a case-by-case basis, we don’t want it, regularization of all undocumented migrants!”
“No one is illegal!”
The demonstrators marched from Place de la République to Place du Châtelet, at the call of collectives of undocumented migrants and the March of Solidarity.
“The law has been passed but we will not give up,” said Ahamada Siby, spokesperson for the undocumented migrants’ collective of Montreuil (Seine-Saint-Denis), to AFP. “We must all stand up to block this racist law that criminalizes us.”
“Régularisation des sans-papiers,” “We are all children of immigrants,” “air, open the borders,” chanted the demonstrators, many of whom were students and retirees, gathered at the call of left-wing organizations and student unions.
The police have counted 1,100 demonstrators in the capital.
In Bordeaux, several hundred people marched without incidents in the city center on Friday evening to protest against the immigration law, as observed by AFP.
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