An informal camp under a Paris bridge where more than a hundred migrants lived was dismantled Tuesday morning and around fifty exiles were transferred to the provinces, we learned from several humanitarian organizations.
For several months, associations have denounced a “
social cleansing
” of the Ile-de-France region, gradually emptied according to them of its most precarious populations living on the streets in view of the 2024 Olympic Games, while the authorities argue that 120,000 people are housed each year. night due to the emergency in Île-de-France.
More than 3,300 people displaced from Ile de France
Tuesday morning, the authorities evacuated the camp formed under the Charles-de-Gaulle bridge, which connects the Gare de Lyon and the Gare d'Austerlitz, in the 13th arrondissement of Paris,
indicated
on
Twitter) the Accès au Droit collective, an inter-association observatory which published photos of dozens of tents and mattresses on the ground, supervised by a police force.
Among the people living on this site, 46 were sent to the region aboard three buses bound for Strasbourg, Angers and Orléans, while around a hundred other people
“left for other camps”
, according to the associations. .
“We continue to remove exiles from Paris.
(...) After three weeks of treatment, what will happen?
A return to the streets?
, they asked on the social network.
Since their creation in April 2023, more than 3,300 people have been directed to temporary reception structures outside Île-de-France,
“airlocks”
opened by the government to direct migrants onto the streets in the Paris region.
“Many of the exiles met this morning had work contracts in Île-de-France and could not afford to leave the region and lose their jobs. If they don't get on the buses, it's because there is a problem with the destination
,” Paul Alauzy, coordinator at Médecins du monde, present on site, told AFP.
Contacted, the prefecture of the Île-de-France region, responsible for these so-called sheltering operations, did not respond immediately.