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The prime minister also said 91,000 accommodation places had been offered “to date”.
The reception of refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine is organized on French soil. “To date, 26,000” arrivals of Ukrainians “have been recorded on entering French territory since the end of February to join family, friends or to go to other countries”said Tuesday, March 22, Jean Castex at the end of an interministerial crisis unit at the Ministry of the Interior.
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At the same time, 10,500 temporary residence permits have been issued, the Prime Minister added. These authorizations, which are renewable for six months, allow the children to attend school and give them the right to seek employment and an allowance. Jean Castex greeted “the tremendous outpouring of solidarity” of the French, since 91,000 accommodation places have been offered “nowadays”.
At the same time, the State has set up a “national reception and accommodation scheme, offering at least 100,000 places”, he specified. According to Matignon, this reservoir includes places offered by local authorities, by “different operators (holiday centers, large hotel groups, real estate of unions or works councils…), and those coming from individuals”.
In this context, the Prime Minister therefore asked the prefects to identify, by the end of March, 25,000 of these 100,000 places. Finally, Jean Castex affirmed that 2,433 Ukrainian children had been taken in “in schools, colleges and high schools across the country”. And 8,000 places have been “identified” in “universities to welcome Ukrainian students”he concluded.