An action is organized this Tuesday evening by the association Utopia 56. Several hundred migrants have set up tents in front of the Council of State. The police began to evacuate the square.
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Several hundred refugees have set up their tents in front of the Council of State, Place du Palais Royal in Paris, this Tuesday evening, indicates the co-founder of Utopia 56 Yann Manzi to franceinfo. The humanitarian association specifies that this action aims to denounce the living conditions of “nearly 700 isolated young people” Who “survive in an abandoned school” of the 16th arrondissement “for 77 days”.
Denounce street violence
“We are doing this to ask the State for this shelter [des mineurs isolés] which never happens”, explains Yann Manzi. He denounces the “violence that settles in the street with the far right that rises” and violence inside the overcrowded school where “Fights are getting harder and harder to manage.”
“The young people are questioning a lot of things, the State said that they would go to the regions, but we know very well that if it is sheltering in the region which is not organized, which does not is not negotiated, it will not work”, details the co-founder of Utopia 56. He asks “to the State to open and speak to associations not mandated by the State”.
The police are evacuating the hundreds of refugees, the police headquarters told franceinfo on Tuesday evening. At 11 p.m., there were 32 arrests.