A camp of 360 migrants evacuated in northeast of Paris

These people will be “welcomed in the accommodation center” to benefit from an evaluation of their administrative situation, “said the prefecture.

Le Monde with AFP

A total of 360 migrants were evacuated Wednesday June 22 of a makeshift camp near the Porte de Pantin, in the northeast of Paris, on the edge with the Seine-Saint-Denis, said the prefecture of Ile-de-France.

“We saw the first tents on this land arrived two weeks ago, a square by the ring road, said the mayor of the 19ᵉ arrondissement, François Dagnaud (PS), for whom the occupants were for the Essential of the “isolated men Afghans and from the horn of Africa, mostly asylum seekers”.

These people will be “welcomed in accommodation center” to benefit from an evaluation of their administrative situation, social, health and administrative support before being redirect to accommodation adapted to their situation in Ile-de-France “or elsewhere, ensures the prefecture.

” We are still in the same cycle “

But for migrant assistance associations, this is the same group that regularly reconstructs camps between northeast of Paris and the neighboring municipalities of Seine-Saint-Denis.

Thus, according to a volunteer from the Solidarité Migrants Wilson collective, part of the people evacuated Wednesday were present among the 500 migrants evacuated on May 11 in Pantin. Installed for several months in a parking lot, they lived there in unsanitary conditions.

“We are still in the same cycle”, estimates Mr. Dagnaud for whom the care ends “year year” by taking place, but without “never succeeding in making it does not go through the street “. According to the elected socialist, “the government and the European Union have not yet drawn the consequences of these dead end situations”.

/Media reports.