The Paris massacre of 1961 occurred on 17 October 1961, during the Algerian War (1954–62). Under orders from the head of the Parisian police, Maurice Papon, the French National Police attacked a demonstration by 30,000 pro-National Liberation Front (FLN) Algerians. After 37 years of denial and censorship of the press, in 1998 the French government finally acknowledged 40 deaths, although there are estimates of 100 to 300 victims. Death was due to heavy-handed beating by the police, as well as mass drownings, as police officers threw demonstrators into the river Seine.
There were multiple episodes of violence between French police and the French Algerian community during the Algerian War. The police department was racist on an institutional level and terrorized Algerians with violence; pro-liberation Algerians targeted and killed police with bombing campaigns.
It was in this context that the head of the Parisian police, Maurice Papon (a former Nazi collaborator later convicted of crimes against humanity) ordered police to kill Algerians, insisting that they would be protected from any consequences.
Under these orders, the French National Police attacked a demonstration by 30,000 pro-National Liberation Front (FLN) Algerians on October 17th, beating dozens to death and throwing people into the Seine river, where many drowned.
Forty years after the massacre, on 17 October 2001, Bertrand Delanoë, the Socialist Mayor of Paris, put up a plaque in remembrance of the massacre on the Pont Saint-Michel. How many demonstrators were killed is still unclear. In the absence of official estimates, the plaque commemorating the massacre reads, "In memory of the many Algerians killed during the bloody repression of the peaceful demonstration of 17 October 1961"
October 17, 1961: A massacre of Algerians in the heart of Paris 
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Don't have anyone else I can tell so here I go with as much evidence of my living with my roommate and him illegally evicting me as I can gather. Off to the police station to see if I can get him officially charged with a misdemeanor. If I can, it'll be a lot easier suing him and/or drilling holes in his locks and reasserting myself and torturing him for my 30 day notice.
good luck!
Struck out. Turns out taking advice from any lawyer that returns your call over the phone doesn't always mean good legal advice. Or maybe I was just bad at explaining it. They did the same thing the cops did when this whole mess started. "It's a civil matter so go to the court". Even though I think they're imagining bad paperwork and what happened was physically being barred entry.
Oh well.
ugh that sucks
Doing stuff with the police and courts is fucking awful. Its like every step is a stumble that makes you think "its ok, the next move I will have things better prepared and that will work." The whole time what you are fighting is not that you are under prepared or that you are not in the right. What you are really up against is a system peopled by individuals who think everyone else is over dramatic, jumps at the chance to call the cops or sue, and really just cant be fucked doing the job that they signed up for.
I hope it doesn't take you long to find a person who thinks your situation is interesting enough to honestly engage with you on it.
I have what appears to be a young eager lawyer who's willing to play phone tag with me for a couple days calling tomorrow.
When you go into my county's main courthouse library and ask for eviction materials, the very first thing you get put in your hands is a guidebook for the rights and responsibilities of tenants/landlords. In the very specific situation I find myself in, it actually tells you to drill the locks and replace them. Being inside that place and making that the status quo that needs to be remedied by legal action is the #1 thing I want to do. Especially because it'll fucking destroy their lives. Especially the roommate I'd be.
Problem with that is that they might actually murder me and I can't put my cats in a place like that. I want it bad enough that I don't know if I'm gonna do it or not.