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The police evacuated on the morning of Tuesday, November 16 several hundred migrants, who were camping on a vacant lot in Grande-Synthe. They were taken by coach to accommodation centers.
TO Grande-Synthe (North), in on the morning of Tuesday, November 16, migrants group their belongings, those of a lifetime, in a shopping cart. The police have just invested their makeshift camp. Dozens of police and gendarmes proceeded with the dismantling, in peace. Installed on private land, the camp brought together more than a thousand people, including several dozen families with young children. “They] have no information on what is going on, they have not been warned at all “, explains Anna Richel, member of the Association Utopia56.
The prefecture presented the operation as a shelter. 663 migrants agreed to board the bus. “A part [ira] in the Hauts-de-France region, in the North region, another part, the essential, in other regions of the national territory “, commented Georges-francois Leclerc, the prefect of the region. “My heart is broken because this camp, these tents, it was my home with my family”, confides a woman. In the evening, about fifty migrants relocated to the exact location of the camp. They say they want to spend at least one night there.