2023-09-05 15:59:10
New evacuation in the Stalingrad district. Several hundred migrants were sheltered on Tuesday morning and transferred to centers in several regions after the evacuation by the police of their informal and unsanitary camp under the Paris aerial metro, NGOs said.
488 people were evacuated, according to the prefecture, then 395 of them were transferred on board buses to centers in Île-de-France and 95 other people directed to regional reception “airlocks”, in particular at Marseilles (Bouches-du-Rhône) and Bordeaux (Gironde). This operation was praised by Alexandra Cordebard, mayor of the 10th arrondissement.
This morning at #Stalingrad, 488 people were sheltered, including about fifteen families. This is the 10th shelter since July 2022, with almost twice as many people cared for compared to the operation carried out in early August. 1/4 https://t.co/3yE4LlfbSo
— Alexandra Cordebard (@ACORDEBARD) September 5, 2023
In these places of accommodation, people “benefit with their agreement from an assessment of their administrative situation, as well as social and health support”, explains the prefecture, which recalls that 4,301 people have been sheltered. since the beginning of the year.
These people lived in “unworthy and extremely degraded conditions” in this informal camp made up of “mattresses, blankets, often without tents”, located under the Stalingrad skytrain station, in the north-east of Paris, explained Paul Alauzy , responsible for patrols for Doctors of the World, present on site.
Originating from Afghanistan and the Horn of Africa
They are mainly Afghan nationals, as well as people from sub-Saharan Africa, he continued, explaining that others (20 people according to the prefecture) had “chosen to stay” after having already benefited from this type of operation “then having been returned to the street”. “How many will return to the streets this evening or in the next few days? also wondered the Access to Law collective, which brings together several associations working with exiles on the street.
On the social network X, formerly Twitter, the collective estimated the number of evacuees at 350 and published a photo in which we see men, bags on their backs, queuing under the aerial metro, supervised by the forces of the order to board the bus.
???? Evacuation in progress of the Stalingrad camp this morning
????️ “About 350 people directed to Marseille, Bordeaux and sorting devices in IDF, with the sadly usual question: how many will return to the streets this evening or the next few days?” pic.twitter.com/i1R06CYZfb
— CAD (Collective Access to Law) (@CAD_Asso) September 5, 2023
At the end of August, the Ile-de-France prefecture indicated that it had already carried out 24 operations of this type in 2023for 3783 people treated.
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