Even if there are no homes nearby, the arrival last weekend of a large Roma community on unoccupied land in the industrial zone between Villers-Saint-Paul and Nogent-sur-Oise, rue du Marais Sec, has not gone unnoticed.
“More than 300 people arrived at this location,” the mayor of Nogent estimates.
This is private land, belonging to investors who are not on site; it will be up to them, if necessary, to take steps with the prefecture.
They connected to quite a few installations.
Everyone is trying to find solutions, the land is in the territory of Villers-Saint-Paul but we are monitoring the situation carefully without panicking the population.
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Temporary homes were set up, made from odds and ends.
This massive arrival in any case sufficiently alerted the authorities to trigger a police control operation this Wednesday at midday.
A large-scale police operation in this area bordering Villers-Saint-Paul where around fifteen police vehicles were mobilized, including reinforcements from Compiègne.
Several vehicles evacuated by tow trucks
“It’s an ordinary control operation, as there can be several per day in different places,” puts Senlis public prosecutor, Loïc Abrial, into perspective.
I have taken requisitions to allow these controls, in view of this unusual influx of population to this location and also what may be happening in terms of delinquency in this area.
» Several tow trucks were used to evacuate vehicles from the site, suggesting possible stolen vehicles.
Several state services were mobilized.
Under the gaze of the police, several men disconnected the illegal electrical installation which connected the electricity network to the temporary homes, huts built from odds and ends.
The control also concerns the security conditions of the establishment of this camp, on land not at all adapted to accommodate such a large population.
When contacted, the Oise prefecture did not respond to our request.