A hundred homeless people, mainly migrants, invaded the Hôtel-Dieu hospital on the Île de la Cité
on
Saturday afternoon, with "
the collective requisitions
", to demand accommodation while a wave cold hits the capital.
With dozens of activists, they had made an appointment at 1:30 pm in front of the hospital located on the Ile de la Cité, for this operation called “
We get warm
”.
"
People are cold, that's why we're here,
" said Jean-Baptiste Eyraud, from the Right to Housing association to the overwhelmed security guard.
"
Call Martin Hirsch (the director of public assistance-hospitals in Paris, AP-HP, editor's note), what we want is stable accommodation for everyone
," proclaimed the spokesperson for the DAL.
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“
Several wings of the Hôtel-Dieu are empty.
If we are not offered an accommodation place, we will stay there,
”Jean-Jacques Clément, from the association Solidarité migrants Wilson, told AFP.
“
We marauded Thursday evening and saw at least 400 people in the street.
The 115 is saturated.
The device is malfunctioning,
”he criticized.
“
We want an overhaul of the hosting system, we want people to have lasting solutions.
We must stop this system where people are sheltered one day and put back into the streets the next day,
”added Yann Manzi from Utopia56.
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On January 24, the collective had already occupied a former nursery school in the 16th arrondissement of Paris to request accommodation for around 300 migrants.
They had been temporarily sheltered in Parisian gymnasiums and then referred to accommodation centers.
