Early on Tuesday morning, police officers and gendarmes pushed back a cordon formed in front of the theater by activists supporting the occupation of the young exiles, some of whom had been present in this Paris cultural venue since December 10.

Riot police forcibly cleared more than 400 young migrants from a Paris theatre on Tuesday, ending an occupation that had lasted about three months. Some 200 demonstrators gathered outside the Gaîté Lyrique theatre in central Paris to protest the operation,