On 1st May, Le Collectif des Tunisiens de Lampedusa à Paris occupied a building belonging to the Mayor of  Paris at 51 avenue Simon Bolivar in Paris’ 19th arrondissement. They asked that the Mayor, who had previously denounced the arrests of Tunisians in nearby Villette region, gave them a place where they could live and organise. Three days later, the response from the Mayor: a mass police operation with helicopter, an eviction and the occupants taken into custody.