A prefectural decree taken on Tuesday considers that their tents obstruct traffic and pose security problems. Associations denounce a “dry” expulsion and a “social cleansing” of the city in view of the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
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Around a hundred migrants, mainly unaccompanied minors, were evacuated on the morning of Wednesday March 20 from a camp under a tunnel in the 12th arrondissement, in Paris, under a prefectural decree citing in particular a significant security risk. .
“A dry expulsion without shelter is underway”, declared the Le Revers de la Medal collective, which brings together some 80 French associations and NGOs, as well as Canadian organizations defending social rights. “They are 15, 16 years old… There are around a hundred unaccompanied minors”she clarified.
No emergency accommodation solution has been offered to these isolated young people, denounces the association Utopia 56 in a publication on X.
“A risk of accidental fire”
The prefectural decree taken on Tuesday considers that since the settlement of these migrants in October under the Villiot tunnel, their presence has intensified with 74 tents. These last “not only hinder the movement of pedestrians and other non-motorized vehicles, but present a significant risk in terms of personal safety to the extent that, in the event of flooding of the Seine, occupants could find themselves trapped by the waters and drown “, justifies the order. There is also “a risk of accidental fire”he continues.
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 Olympic Games (July 26-August 11). The authorities, for their part, argue that 120,000 people are accommodated each night under the emergency in Ile-de-France.
