Expulsion : affrontement à 台北市Taipei – 28 mars 2012

Protesters, police clash as homes are razed

taipeitimes.com

39 03 2012

By Mo Yan-chih /

Following overnight protests that descended into violent clashes between demonstrators and police, the Taipei City Government yesterday evicted the owners of two buildings in Shilin District (士林), demolishing their homes to make way for an urban renewal project.

The project, under which a construction firm plans to turn an old residential complex for 38 households into a 15-story high-rise apartment complex, was stalled for three years because of opposition from a family surnamed Wang (王), who had lived in two two-story apartment buildings in the area for more than a decade.

As the city government prepared to demolish the two houses, more than 300 advocates of the Wang family rushed to the site late on Tuesday evening to show their opposition to the project, blocking the entrance to the houses, with some even chaining themselves in front of the buildings to stop the demolition.

More than 1,000 police officers arrived in the morning with barricades and shields. Read more …