November 2 French News Summary: 100 homeless people in Paris demonstrate in protest

Nearly a hundred homeless people occupied the forecourt of the Paris City Hall; two men were shot and killed overnight; the Buyig Public Construction Company was sentenced to owe 2.1 million euros to the national treasury; and the Central African man faked marriage to help defraud his nationality.

Hundreds of homeless people in Paris demonstrated in protest

With the help of Utopia56, an association for the support of immigrants, nearly a hundred homeless people occupied the forecourt of the Paris City Hall on the afternoon of October 28, demanding to settle the accommodation. An activist at the association said their accommodation network had been inadequate for weeks and the situation was urgent. A 33-year-old woman from Ivory Coast said, "I've been sleeping outside for 4 years", she is 8 months pregnant and has a one-year-old daughter. A 26-year-old Congolese woman who lost her home in 2020, holding her 7-year-old daughter, shouted to the surrounding police: "Freedom, equality, fraternity, is there?" We won't leave here! "Neither the Paris municipal government nor the paris district government responded to the matter.

Two men were killed in the Carcassonne shooting

Prosecutors in the southern French city of Carcassonne announced on Nov. 1 that two men, aged 18 and 21, had been shot and killed the night before.

Prosecutors said the incident occurred in the Grazailles neighborhood, where a man died on the spot and another died after being taken to hospital. The two dead had no previous drug trafficking convictions, and the current investigation could not confirm that the shooting was liquidated by the gang. Earlier, a person close to the investigation estimated that it might be a gang liquidation case, as two factions of drug dealers competed for the drug market. The source also said that before the incident, a number of garbage cans and cargo bottoms were set on fire in another block a little further away from the grazailles block, and it may be that the criminals deliberately diverted the police from the place of departure.

Prosecutors acknowledged that the fire had been set, but argued that it was not yet possible to determine that it was related to the killing of two men.

Bouygues Construction was fined 2.1 million

The Administrative Court of Appeal (CAA) of Nantes revealed on October 28 that bouygues tp was sentenced to owe 2.1 million euros to the State Treasury in September for concealing work on the Flamanville nuclear reactor project in 2009.

Buyig Construction was asked by the Ministry of Economy to pay this amount for employing 163 workers, mainly from Poland, through subcontractor atlanco, to conceal their work during the project from September 16, 2009 to June 25, 2011. The flamanville nuclear reactor project has been delayed for 10 years, with a budget of €3.3 billion at first and now estimated at €12.4 billion.

Central African men sham marriages help to defraud nationality

A 57-year-old man was fined 1,500 euros in Saint-Etienne for falsely claiming to be the father of an African mother's child to help them acquire French citizenship. The man, who is from the Central African Republic and later became a French citizen, has gone through more than 8 years of litigation in this case. The man had married 3 women in Africa or France and claimed to be the father of 11 children, while one of the women had admitted that the man had infertility, which was confirmed by genetic analysis. Prosecutors' representatives said the man's abuse of the law and his status as a French national may have been for money or some benefit.

(Editor: Bai Jie)