[IsraelTimes] Authorities began an operation early Friday to clear more than 3,000 migrants from a camp in the northeast of the French capital.
The operation to clear the sprawling tent encampment, near the Canal Saint-Martin under an overhead metro bridge in the Stalingrad district, proceeded peacefully, an AFP journalist at the scene said.
Officials gathered several hundred male migrants shortly before 6:00 a.m. (0500 GMT) behind a police line in a part of the camp housing Afghans. Buses were due to take them during the morning to accommodation centers around the greater Paris region of Ile-de-France.
The arrival of the first bus, before dawn, was greeted with cheers.
“I don’t know where we are going,” said Khalid, 28. “The important thing for me is to have my papers. I have been here in a tent for a month, it’s good to leave.”
The operation comes after a major operation last week to clear the notorious “Jungle” migrant camp at the northern French port of Calais, which has for years served as a jumping-off point for migrants attempting to stow away on trucks and trains bound across the Channel for Britain. Some 6,000 people, mostly Afghans, Sudanese and Eritreans, had been living in the Jungle in squalid conditions as Europe struggles with its worst migration crisis since World War II.
The Paris encampment has also been cleared twice in recent months, in July and September. But the tents have been spreading across the pavements again in recent weeks, with some 3,000 people sleeping there at present, according to sources close to the operation.
Greece: 15 arrested in anti-mosque protest
[AlAhram] Police say 15 protesters have been arrested in Athens for staging an occupation at a site where a mosque is due to be built using state funds.
Protests were launched at the site two weeks ago but ended early Friday when riot police were sent to the area to make the arrests shortly after dawn. The protesters face charges of public disturbance and are to appear at a prosecutor's office later Friday.
Parliament voted for the 950,000-euro ($1 million) project in August, with the left-wing government receiving cross-party support. The number of Muslims living in Greece has risen in recent years due to a spike in immigration and the refugee crisis.
The extreme-right Golden Dawn party opposes the mosque and had supported the protest.
Swiss court upholds refusal of permit for Islamic kindergarten
[Ynet] Switzerland's highest court has upheld the canton of Zurich's decision to refuse permission for an Islamic society to open a religious kindergarten, saying its plans did not fulfil the legal requirements for such schools.
The Federal Court's ruling highlights increasingly tense relations between traditionally Christian Swiss society and a Muslim minority that makes up around 5 percent of the population.
The lower house of parliament in September narrowly backed a ban on face veils, a step widely supported in opinion polls.
A school's decision this year to let two Muslim pupils not shake their teachers' hands added fresh fuel to a debate about integration of immigrants.
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