RTL.fr: Paris: evacuation of a camp of over a thousand migrants north of the city

From: Berhane Habtemariam <Berhane.Habtemariam_at_gmx.de_at_dehai.org>
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2016 17:59:57 +0200

Paris: evacuation of a camp of over a thousand migrants north of the city

Unsanitary camp more than a thousand migrants who had recently reconstituted was being evacuated on July 22 in the morning.

evacuation camp this camp situated between Jaurès metro and Colonel Fabien in Paris.
Credit: JACQUES DEMARTHON / AFP
evacuation camp this camp situated between Jaurès metro and Colonel Fabien in Paris.

This is the 26th such operation in just a year in Paris. Unsanitary camp more than a thousand migrants were being evacuated, Friday, July 22 from 6:30.The camp housing 1,200 to 1,400 people , mostly men, from Eritrea, Somalia and Afghanistan had recently reconstituted north of Paris between Jaurès metro and Colonel Fabien, riding on the tenth and nineteenth arrondissements. There was shortly after the start of operation of crowd movements . People are in a hurry to get on the buses that arrived in dribs and drabs. The security forces then pushed back using tear gas. Coaches should lead them in shelters in  Île-de-France  and the provinces. 1,500 seats have been mobilized , including about 500 in the gym, to this operation. The crowd had gradually installed on the median invaded by hundreds of tents and mattresses, among the garbage and urine puddles. A few meters away are local to  France haven , where migrants make their first application for registration. The last weekend, the brawls erupted between migrants , requiring the intervention of police and CRS.

"Feelings of exhaustion"

Pierre Henry, general director of France Terre d'Asile, says his "feeling of exhaustion": "it is necessary in all the regional capitals of the centers to welcome and orient migrants, to stop attracting people in Paris and Calais. If it does not, is that the political decision is not taken. " The operation was attended by the regional prefect Jean Francois Carenco, the prefect of Paris Sophie Broca, representatives of the municipality of Paris, associations (Emmaus, France Land of Asylum) and the OFII (french Office for immigration and integration).

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