YEMEN Press Agency

40 people arrested during demonstration in Paris

SANAA, July 13 (YPA) –  About 40 people were detained during a protest demonstration on Friday near Paris’s Grand Cemetery, Paris police reported.

“After the identification of personal identities, 37 people were detained,” the police wrote on Twitter page.

For its part, the radio “RFI” said that about 700 migrants protestors, also known as “black jackets,” stormed on Friday the building of Paris’s Grand Cemetery (Pantheon) in Paris to protest against the conditions of “undocumented workers” in France.

The protestors called on the government to grant them the legal status and provide housing for them.

The protests were organized by the group “Protect the rights of migrants” Chapelle Debout, “which announced before weeks that it sent a letter to the French Prime Minister, including complaints of asylum seekers in the country of the living conditions they suffer.