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The number of unaccompanied foreign minors is exploding in France

2020-09-22T18:17:11.654Z


The country is hosting nearly 40,000 unaccompanied minors in 2020 alone. In 2014, they were barely 4000 to be supported by social assistance to children.


More than ever, France is marching alongside Germany to come to the aid of unaccompanied foreign minors.

Since the fire in the Moria camp, on the island of Lesbos, in Greece, until then considered to be the largest reception structure for migrants in all of Europe, Berlin has announced that it wants to shelter on its ground about 1500 disaster victims.

Among them: around 150 unaccompanied minors.

A hundred others would be welcomed by Paris, even if the Ministry of the Interior does not deliver, to date, any precise figure.

“Everything is still under discussion,”

assures an adviser to Gerald Darmanin in Beauvau.

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The country of human rights had in any case already committed, before the summer, to welcome 350 unaccompanied foreign minors from Greece, but also several families.

Last August, 49 of them arrived in France.

In addition, by the end of the month, 175 vulnerable people, or from uprooted families, are supposed to have reached France.

“This is indeed a specific operation,

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Source: lefigaro

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