“This place saved my life”: around forty arrests after the evacuation of an LGBT squat in Montreuil

2023-08-23 05:54:57

Eyes red with emotion, a young woman looks up at the top of the building surrounded by police. She struggles to find her words before recovering, taking on a more determined voice: “It’s a place that saved my life. Without La Baud, I don’t know if I would be here today…” A few minutes earlier, this Tuesday at the end of the morning, the evacuation of La Baudrière had just ended in Montreuil (Seine-Saint-Denis), after a major police operation that began in the early hours of the morning.