When Bonnelles was the first commune in France to welcome refugees in the midst of the 2015 migration crisis. 78 Iraqi and Syrian migrants get off a bus chartered by the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons (Ofpra) On September 8, the elected official learned that he would welcome refugees.
The next day, the mayor at the time, Guy Poupart (without label), has run the village for twenty years. The Habitat et Humanisme association has just purchased this old monastery.