10 January 2017
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"Police in Paris have been accused of putting migrants’ lives in danger by stealing their blankets in the heart of winter.
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) also warned of “systematic police violence” targeted at the hundreds of migrants forced to sleep rough on the streets of Paris due to overcrowding in the capital's only reception centre.
MSF accused police of harassing migrants, waking them up in the middle of the night, using tear gas to disperse them, and not allowing them to sit down as they queue for a place in the shelter in the northern Parisian neighbourhood of La Chapelle."
See the article: French police 'stealing blankets from migrants', charity warns (The Independent, link)
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