On Tuesday 29th March at 6am 150 police evicted a Roma camp along the back of the Ourcq canal near Bobigny, north east of Paris. The camp had been there for two years and housed 270 people. Throughout the morning caravans which were mobile were removed and other shelters were destroyed. The mayor of Bobibny, Catherine Peyge, said that they had had no warning from the prefecture about the eviction, and denounced the “security and anti-immigration policies of the government”. 48 of the evictees moved to a plot in Bobigny, the rest were housed in a sports hall which Peyge had opened as an emergency measure.