Hundreds of migrants, most of them Afghans, were evacuated from their informal and unsanitary camp by the police on Tuesday morning. They were installed under the Stalingrad skytrain station in northeastern Paris, NGOs said. At least 400 people were transferred on board buses to centers in Ile-de-France as well as to regional reception “airlocks”, in particular in Marseille and Bordeaux, explained to AFP Paul Alauzy, responsible for marauding. for Doctors of the World, present on site.
These people lived in “unworthy and extremely degraded conditions” in this informal camp made up of “mattresses, blankets, often without tents”, located under the Paris aerial metro station, continued the head of the NGO who regularly intervened on the website. They are mostly Afghan nationals, as well as people from sub-Saharan Africa, he said, explaining that others had “chosen to stay” after having already benefited from this kind of assistance. operation “then being returned to the street”.
“How many will return to the streets tonight? »
On the social network X, formerly Twitter, the Accès au droit collective estimated the number of evacuees at 350 and published a photo in which we see men, bags on their backs, queuing under the aerial metro, framed by the law enforcement to board the bus. “How many will return to the streets this evening or in the next few days? “, also wondered the collective, which brings together several associations working with exiles on the street.
Questioned Tuesday morning, the prefecture of the Ile-de-France region did not immediately communicate on the operation. At the end of August, it indicated that it had already carried out 24 operations of this type in 2023, for 3,783 people taken care of.