More than 200 migrant people living on the streets on the banks of the Seine were evacuated this Tuesday from their informal camp in Paris and half transferred to reception “locks” in the regions, the authorities announced.
The latter carried out in the early morning “a shelter operation for people sleeping on the street in the Quai d’Austerlitz sector”, in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, the prefecture of Paris wrote in a joint press release. the Ile-de-France region and the Paris police headquarters (PP).
One hundred people sent “to the region”, 2,800 since April
“Of the 221 people taken care of at the Austerlitz quay, 100 of them were taken care of and directed to temporary reception structures in the region,” indicated these prefectures.
For seven months, more than 2,800 people have been transferred to regional accommodation “locks”, opened in April by the government to direct migrants onto the streets in Ile-de-France, where camps resurface at regular intervals. and where emergency accommodation experiences chronic saturation.
Associations denounce “social cleansing”
Several dozen associations, which have grouped together within a collective called “the other side of the medal”, have been denouncing for several weeks the “social cleansing” of the Paris region, gradually emptied of its most precarious populations living in the street in view of the 2024 Olympic Games: migrants, homeless people, sex workers, people living in slums, etc.
In the “sas”, the authorities defended in their press release, “the people sheltered benefit, with their agreement, from an assessment of their administrative situation, as well as from social and health support”.
On Tuesday, the authorities carried out the 32nd Ile-de-France operation of the year, with 5,963 people taken into care in 2023.