The battle plan was carefully prepared. On the night of Thursday to Friday, hundreds of migrants settled for several weeks under the elevated subway Stalingrad (tenth and nineteenth) settled Clavel Street, in the premises of the vocational high school Jean-Jaurès (nineteenth) unoccupied for months.
A scheduled operation since the day before the collective of activists La Chapelle Debout who planned, with the Stalingrad of refugees, occupation details . And widely disseminated information on Friday morning on the social networks.
Now, access to the school are monitored and secured by militants sealed and doors. Clavel Street, visitors are asked to show their credentials. The exchanges are on either side of the gate, and supporters allowed to enter the enclosure, are, in turn, invited to slip between two bars slightly apart. An occupation that is reminiscent of another school in the district become shelter, Jean-Quarré, where more than a thousand migrants had found refuge in the summer of 2015.
“for now, the migrants do not want to communicate, says one of their supporters. They arrived during the night and finally have a roof. There is plenty of space here: 7000 m2. They can sleep in the classrooms, he explains. “Sudanese, Somalis, Pakistanis and Eritreans, most of them, these men have passed through Calais, Italy and Greece before putting their bags to camp Stalingrad already evacuated three times since last March .
A “wide handling of refugees,” according to the regional prefect, Jean-François Carenco
Today, they are still between 400 and 500 under the metal girders subway air, and tensions remain high: April 14, two successive fights between migrants left four injured. “We are opening the building to provide housing for refugees is allowed to sleep under bridges or buildings porches of neighborhoods for the municipality said that Paris is a safe city,” insists La Chapelle Standing in a statement.
But while dozens of other migrants were pouring in during the day Jean-Jaures high school, the Ile-de-France region, manager of the establishment, denounced “with the greatest firmness this illegal occupation “and asked the prefect of police evacuating the premises. Places “that must welcome after work, the students and staff of the regional school building and public works, currently located in the XV th . “
Already, the region announced that it will file a complaint” for the offenses and any damage “that could be committed. For its part, the regional prefect, Jean-François Carenco, claiming “18 sheltering operations and 6 500 accommodations” in recent months, denounced a “vast manipulation of refugees, organized by small groups who have chosen force rather than law. Me, he insists, I represent the Republican brotherhood. France is a land of refuge, no mess. This is all the more unnecessary that a large majority of asylum applications are taken into account, since these are people who come from countries at war. “
” But what is it that these people be evacuated and worthily housed? “” The camp is growing every day there are children …. we waiting for? This is outrageous! “. A metro Stalingrad (tenth and nineteenth), residents and community multplient cries of alarm and flood the social networks of concerned messages. The mayor (PS) of X th , itself, Remi Feraud, testified his concern, fearing “to anticipate serious problems.”
Already evacuated twice since March, the camp of migrants grows in eye sight, despite a hundred departures to the Jean-Jaures high school … They are now between 400 and 500 installed on mattresses fortune under the elevated subway. “With only two public toilets, hygiene is deplorable, irritated a local resident of Chapel Boulevard. Some refugees have health problems, skin diseases, in particular, and they can now count on the solidarity of some residents, merchants and associations that organize food distributions. How long does it going to last? “.
Here, everyone still remembers both violent clashes between migrants which broke out on April 14. And although the reasons remain obscure fights, the neighborhood is convinced that “people are tired of living in such conditions. They are to end, raising fears of new outbreaks of violence. ” On Friday, many refugees were considering themselves as earning high school …
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