On Saturday, 100 people from the group CIP-IDF (Coordination des Intermittents et Precaires – Ile-de-France) took over the building located at 63-65 Boulevard Charonne and were forcibly taken out by police. This group was apparently evicted from another space in the 19th and has been petitioning the Mairie de 11eme for awhile now to move into this one. No response. I walked by the building just as things were starting. I saw about 20 policemen already on the street and many more police vans driving up, one after the other, rapid-fire.But I couldn’t see why yet – there were no protesters visible. Needless to say, I wanted to know what this was about, but I was running late for an appointment. That night at a party I ran into someone who had been trapped in the bar across the street (what are the chances?) and he said things got pretty heated. The main sign read: “We need space to exist in the world.”
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