This Sunday afternoon, raindrops cross the pergola of the park and fall on the sweets shared by a group of children.
The Josette and Maurice Audin park, in Bagnolet, has been home to around thirty women and twenty children in sixteen tents since Friday.
Neighbors have given them tarpaulins in anticipation of the storm expected in the night, and the associations take turns to bring them bottles of water, bread, diapers.
"Here, the problem is no longer the drunken walkers who step on us, it's the rats", breathes Fatim, 24 years old.
This park is only one of many stopovers for these women, mainly Ivorian and Malian, whose different paths have come together in an informal camp set up on the edge of the Guilands park.
Bringing together 317 undocumented people, it was dismantled by the prefecture on Monday July 18.
These thirty women and their children were thus sheltered in the Jean Renault gymnasium in the city.
Expelled on August 4, they were dispersed in the provinces in search of emergency accommodation, in vain.
Back on the sidewalk in front of the gymnasium on Avenue de la République, they were expelled again on Friday August 12, to finally find this park as their base.
After having launched a petition, currently signed by more than a thousand people, to demand a new shelter accompanied by permanent housing proposals, the Mymaraude association seized the administrative court of Montreuil (TA) for interim measures.
Objective: in particular to cancel the decision to expel the gymnasium.
The hearing was held on Friday.
The decision is due on Tuesday.
" I pray God.
I want my children to go to school”
“A dignified accommodation solution has been offered to all the families concerned.
Some of them refused the offer made to them by the State.
It is their strictest right, ”we can read in the update of a press release from the town hall of Bagnolet on August 4.
A position that MyMaraude does not share.
According to its president, Yasmine Boussalem, housing proposals sent these women to the provinces after their expulsion from the gymnasium, but none succeeded.
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“Either they were evicted from their accommodation, or they were told, once they arrived there, that they had to return to their country of origin after a week, so they fled”, explains Yasmine Boussalem.
Matogoma, 33, left for Angers with her one-year-old daughter on August 4, but was refused access to emergency accommodation "without a message or anything, there is no paper", she specifies.
She had to raise 120 euros to go back to Paris two days later.
While waiting for the decision of the TA, the living conditions of the camp are deteriorating.
The children and their mothers wash themselves with water bottles or at the day centers when they are open.
Aïcha, 27, is worried about her daughter's breathing problems.
" I pray God.
I also want my children to go to school,” implores his mother.
“Most of the children are educated in Île-de-France and we want them to be able to go back to school,” adds Yasmine Boussalem.
