Some 400 migrants were evicted from their tents on the banks of the Seine in Paris on Wednesday, due to the risk of flooding, according to a prefectural decree, denounced by associations.
“The Paris police headquarters has just issued an expulsion order for all the quays of the Seine within the walls.
This concerns nearly 400 people.
The pre-Olympics manhunt has begun
,” protests the Utopia56 association on the X network, which helps exiles in the street.
The prefectural decree taken on Wednesday is based on the Vigicrues bulletin from the day before reporting that the level of the Seine has been rising since Saturday evening and will result in
"the arrival of flood waves propagating upstream of the Paris”
which will continue with
“a maximum to be observed this Wednesday”
.
Associations denounce “social cleansing”
In its decree, the prefecture estimates
the number of occupants installed
“irregularly”
in these camps between Pont-Marie and Austerlitz station at
“around 420” .
No shelter is planned, denounced the Revers de la Medal collective, which brings together some 80 French associations and NGOs, as well as Canadian organizations defending social rights.
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. The authorities, for their part, argue that 120,000 people are accommodated every night as part of the emergency in Ile-de-France.