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About 1,000 exiled people were evacuated on Tuesday, November 16, from a private wasteland they had occupied for several weeks in Grande-Synthe. Their influx into this area had intensified over the past few days.
It is still dark, early in the morning of Tuesday, November 16, but some migrants have already been warned of the evacuation being prepared in Grande-Synthe (North). They gathering their business. “The risk is that business [des personnes] are stolen, destroyed, and they have no way of recovering them, when these are the only things they have to survive “, deplores Anna, coordinator of the association Utopia 56.
Nearly a thousand people, Afghans, Iranians, Iraqis or Kurds, live in this camp, in the cold, without toilets or running water. The arrival of the police causes total disarray. “I’m out of luck, I didn’t know the police were coming. […] I think they want to take our tents. I don’t know, maybe I’ll go that way, or that way “, confides an occupant of the camp, pointing away. Some agree to be evacuated, like families with children, but have many questions, especially if they will be separated. Associations like journalists were kept away by the police.