French demolish migrant church, mosque at migrant camp

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

French demolish migrant church, mosque at migrant camp

Angela Charlton, Associated Press

Updated 1:16 pm, Monday, February 1, 2016

PARIS (AP) — After allowing believers one last chance to pray, French authorities demolished a makeshift church and mosque Monday as part of a security operation at a camp in Calais populated by thousands of migrants.

Authorities are trying to re-establish order in the long-lawless camp, and Monday's operation was the culmination of a two-week effort to clear a 100-meter security zone around the perimeter of the camp, a regional official said.

The migrants and charity groups helping them were informed Jan. 19 of the pending demolition, the official said, adding that no one was hurt in the operation.

However, the pastor of the church said authorities had told him the church was "safe" from destruction.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/world/article/French-demolish-migrant-church-mosque-at-migrant-6798292.php

[blackspade]

1. Another result of economic austerity.

The rise of fascism and demonization of the 'other'

[trillion]

3. +100000

[murielm99]

2. Maybe the church and mosque

could have provided some needed stability to the long-lawles camp.

[trillion]

4. It wans't that lawless. DemocracyNow.org visited it and it looked like they had created a civil

society with even businesses like restaurants migrants opened and employed other migrants at. Plus these lawless people managed to put in a Church.

[JoeyT]

5. "Authorities are trying to re-establish order in the long-lawless camp"

Yeah, good idea to bulldoze their houses of worship. That always stabilizes things.

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