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Homeless Shooed Away From Luxury Parisian Hotel

Where: 2 Rue Scribe, Paris, France, 75009

While the homeless were being treated at the Hyatt Regency Dallas, a different scene was unfolding in Paris in front of the Intercontinental Paris Le-Grand Hotel. France24 reports:

Several dozen protesters, mainly women and children, briefly occupied the entrance patio of one of France's most famous and prestigious hotels on Friday to demand better low-cost housing.

Around 50 police moved in and removed the group, many of them African immigrants, after they moved into the Intercontinental Paris-Le Grand on Place de l'Opera in the heart of Paris' main shopping and tourist district....

Their group, Right to Accommodation, is campaigning for homeless and poorly housed families to be provided with long-term low-cost housing by the French state, and has been fined in the past for camping on public thoroughfares.

The protestors were seeking a meeting with the prime minister's office. The hotel is a short walk away from where they have set up a squatters camp. It's also a top hotel for first class jet-setters as we learned last month. Fortunately, the protest did not turn violent although the police did break up the group. Let's hope the gendarmerie did not have to use any of that serious gear they were sporting.

[Photo via France24]