In Mamoudzou (Mayotte)
From 6 a.m. on Monday, the makeshift shelters made of bamboo and wooden planks were destroyed by the technical services of the Mamoudzou town hall.
The day before, refugees from Africa of the Great Lakes, installed in this camp near the Cavani stadium, had started the dismantling themselves, before the rain prevented them from continuing.
In total, 308 people - having obtained refugee status - were identified on site and left Mayotte for the mainland yesterday.
According to
Le Parisien
, nearly 200 of them will be hosted in a castle in Yvelines, at the Thiverval-Grignon estate,
“at least until mid-March before being directed to lasting accommodation solutions”.
“Many people left but not me
,” regrets Chantal, who arrived from Congo two years ago
“to escape the war”
with her three children.
This thirty-year-old lives with her family in a cabin that is leaking.
“I was told they would call me next…
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