They took advantage of the unrest to take flight.
Three or four foreigners locked up in the administrative detention center (CRA) of Mesnil-Amelot managed to escape during the night from Wednesday to Thursday.
In this center, the largest in France, located just a few hundred meters from the runways at Roissy airport, a mutiny broke out shortly before 10:30 p.m.
About 95 undocumented migrants were gathered and began to attack the police, throwing projectiles at them.
They also lit a few fires.
Some even climbed to the roofs.
According to a police source, one of these illegal aliens was slightly injured when falling from several meters high and another was injured by a branch.
Police reinforcements arrived: officials from the Villeparisis agglomeration police station, staff from the Departmental Directorate of Public Security as well as the Seine-Saint-Denis Night Anti-Crime Brigade (BAC) were sent there. .
" The situation is tense "
The police used de-encircling grenades as well as tear gas to restore calm, in particular because some of their colleagues from the CRA were in difficulty.
Calm was restored overnight.
“For several days, people detained have been trying to escape.
The situation is tense, ”Mathilde Godoy, Ile-de-France manager of Cimade, an association supporting migrants and refugees, with an on-site branch, told AFP.
On January 20, in this CRA in Seine-et-Marne, foreigners started a fire to protest against a court decision keeping them in detention because they had refused a PCR test, necessary for their expulsion from French territory.
