Paris: migrants Wood Dormoy left the barracks – Le Point

150 to 200 people, including a few hundred migrants who occupied since late afternoon on Thursday a disused barracks in Paris left the scene shortly after 23 hours to regain shelters. After several hours of negotiations, migrants have indeed accepted the proposal of the leaders of the municipality of Paris to house 110 people at four sites, one in Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine) and three in the center of Paris, will -on learned from participating in the discussions. They went out of the building to 23 h 10 to win two buses that were then to take them to shelters where they will remain “until early next week,” are we told the mayor of Paris.

“This is a victory for migrants. They will be housed, fed and cared for. Some need it. But the issue of migrants is not resolved tonight (Thursday),” said Emmanuelle Becker, of Paris (FCP). “I am relieved, but I have no idea what will happen next,” he told Ali, a Sudanese. Migrants and their supporters had invested around 18 h 30 barracks Château-Landon, near the Gare de l’Est (Xe arrondissement), after leaving the voluntary Garden Wood Dormoy where they had sought refuge from the night of Monday to Tuesday. Some of these migrants are wandering since June 2, and the dismantling of the camp of La Chapelle.

Some scuffles

In the early evening, hundreds of demonstrators massed in outside to show their support caused some clashes with police. Some have attempted to enter the building using ladders and CRS launched two loads with tear gas, 21 to 30 pm and 22 pm to put them out of reach of the building. They suffered projectiles thrown from the street, but also from the windows by occupants, some of whom are “violent elements” according to the Prefecture of Police (PP) .A police officer was “severely injured his eye” by stone, said the PP.

From the beginning of the occupation, the city of Paris and the government had pointed out the dangers of this barracks, fragile, because abandoned for ten years . His court was no longer used for food distributions Army hello. The Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve and the Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo had also criticized in a joint statement supports some of the migrants, “irresponsible individuals” who, “for more than a week, cynically instrumentalize the dramatic situation in which are the migrants for purely political. ” These “irresponsible individuals have intervened and evacuated the bus in which migrants were seated (in the afternoon to join the housing, Ed) to make them earn a disused barracks and unhealthy”, they lamented , calling for “an attitude of responsibility.”