A judge ordered Wednesday that dozens of migrants, who settled in a gymnasium in Toulouse after being evicted from a university building they had occupied for more than a year, also leave this site, after a complaint from the city hall.
The migrants, including some minors, had settled in the Saint-Sernin gymnasium on Saturday, in the city center, after being expelled the day before from a building at Paul-Sabatier University, where there were more than 200 of them. house since December 2022.
The city of Toulouse then announced its intention to file a complaint and filed an eviction order on Monday.
An “obstacle to the proper functioning of the public service” according to the judge
In his decision, the judge
“orders all occupants without rights or titles of the Saint-Sernin gymnasium (...) to vacate the premises without delay”
.
To justify his decision, he indicated that he considered
“that the occupation in question was an obstacle to the functioning of the public education service and to the development of sports and physical education activities”
.
Mayor Jean-Luc Moudenc (DVD )
immediately
welcomed the decision and announced on
“We are completely stunned
,” responded to AFP Jennifer Gruman, of the TEC31 association, present with these migrants, according to her
“distraught”
after the judge's decision and some of whom are in school.
"What's going to happen?
A camp again?
A squat again?
The institutions pass the buck and say “No, it’s not us” (...) the problem is eternal if there is no rehousing proposal
,” she regretted.
There are more than a hundred migrants in this gymnasium and most of them are minors, according to the organizations supporting them.