About 500 homeless people, mainly migrants including Afghans and families with children, set up tents in Paris on Wednesday, under the windows of the prefecture of the Ile-de-France region, in order to ask the State for ” worthy and sustainable hosting solutions ”. This new camp, in the 15th arrondissement, was set up on the initiative of the “Collectif Réquisitions”, which brings together several associations multiplying punch actions to make these exiles visible in the street.
Dozens of tents were set up at 1 p.m. on the lawns of André Citroën Park, where there were also many unaccompanied foreign minors. “We set up in front of the regional prefecture to confront it with the vulnerability of people on the street. And we will stay until it takes them away, ”warned Pierre Mathurin, a manager of the Utopia56 association.
At least fifteen homeless Afghans were present at the camp at midday and others were expected “in a trickle” in the afternoon, according to Utopia56. This is the 10th action of the “Collectif Réquisitions”, in which also appears Solidarity migrants Wilson, Children of Afghanistan and elsewhere and the DAL.
In July, this organization had occupied the very chic Place des Vosges, in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, after a town hall gymnasium in May and a former nursery school in January.