Dozens of tents shelter Eritreans and Sudanese from Boulevard month the Chapel. Illustration. (ARCHIVE LP / OLIVIER LEJEUNE)
The migrant camp metro La Chapelle in Paris (XVIII) is being evacuated. Since 6:00 this Tuesday morning, the police, accompanied by social workers of the city of Paris and association representatives, proceed to dismantle the encampment in the middle of the boulevard (Xe – XVIII) under the skytrain ( line 2), between Barbès stations and La Chapelle, on the site of a former waste disposal and a “skate park”.
A dozen riot police vehicles are on site, as well as bus to drive occupants who are not parties of their leader to shelters. Arrive at 5:45 am, police traffic stop along the subway, on the Boulevard de La Chapelle, from Barbès. Only pedestrians and bicycles may pass. She also asked journalists to reverse in a side street, and takes away the militants who had arranged to meet on Monday evening to support the migrants, after the publication of the expulsion prefectural.
A camp of more than 400 people
Housed in ten months, the camp has a lot of weight in the influx of refugees, mostly Eritreans and Sudanese, but also Guineans, men, many of whom are asylum seekers, some women and, more recently, children. On the twenty tents late March it happened in two months more than 400 people living in poor sanitary conditions, without water, some sleeping on the floor, under the same conditions as the other group of migrants settled on a stop of the ring road of La Chapelle door, away from a median.
Last weekend, associations, including France Terre d’Asile and Emmaus France who asked for months housing for migrants, met about 360 camp occupants to check their files and launch of of possible approaches. Following these interviews, about 160 people were under asylum and 200 were in transit to other destinations, Britain and the Nordic countries especially.
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