Fransk vänsterteater bjöd 250 Afros på gratis show-nu konkurs då de 250 vägrar lämna

The theatre staged the conference, entitled Reinventing the welcome for refugees in France, on December 10.
It involved talks hosted by academics from top universities and Red Cross officials, and saw activists welcome in the migrants.

But when the conference was finished, the migrants refused to leave the venue.

Still occupied, the leftist theatre now faces going out of business after weeks without revenue from ticket sales.
Its management called for the local authorities to find a housing solution for the occupiers.

'Although this occupation is forced, it is unthinkable for the Gaîté Lyrique to throw these people out onto the street in the middle of winter,' the statement added.

Paris's Socialist-led council, which owns the building, claims it has looked for accommodation for the migrants but that none was available.
It has called for the government to deal with the problem, but President Macron's centrist cabinet is said to have ignored the request.

The migrants all claim to be under age 18, meaning they would be considered unaccompanied minors and given the right to be housed and assisted by local authorities.
But local officials have insisted that they are adults and that most are known to the authorities and had been sleeping on the streets before entering the theatre.

The Collectif des Jeunes du Parc de Belleville, the group which organised the occupation, slammed the age test as 'racist and expeditive'.
Named after the Paris park they previously occupied, the protest group described the theatre occupation as a focal point for their 'antiracist and anticolonial struggle'.

France's interior minister Bruno Retailleau, who took on the role in September, vowed to crack down on illegal migration when he took on the role in September.

The theatre's income model - which is 70 per cent based on ticket sales and 30 per cent on subsidies - has collapsed.