The premises have been emptied of their occupants and the diggers are now at work.
Three Roma camps in Sarcelles (Val-d'Oise) were evacuated on Thursday 27 and Friday 28 October.
About 135 people lived in makeshift shelters on Chemin des Poiriers, Route de Refuzniks and in Parc des Prés under the city.
Two of these illegal occupations concerned land owned by the Val-d'Oise departmental council.
“They had been busy for a few weeks.
For the oldest, it dated from before the summer, ”says the mayor of Sarcelles, Patrick Haddad (PS).
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Evacuation of the illegal camp set up on the Refuzniks road in @VilleSarcelles
➡️ Families identified as vulnerable have benefited from a proposal for accommodation or shelter.
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The evacuation of the camp located on Chemin des Poiriers took place on Thursday afternoon.
The other two were evacuated the next day in execution of two court decisions.
This evacuation decision was coordinated jointly with the State services and the Val-d'Oise department.
The demolition operations of the precarious installations and the securing of the sites were undertaken in stride.
"We did things by the book," says Patrick Haddad.
The three camps were empty on the day of the evacuation since the national forces made several trips upstream to warn the inhabitants of their evacuations.
These sites had already been the subject of an eviction.
An accommodation solution had been offered to them but the inhabitants had refused and had not wished to give their identity.
Patrick Haddad indicates that they had not come forward to the municipal center for social action and that the children were not in school.