The police headquarters decided to evacuate this Friday morning the camp of young migrants located place de la Bastille. “The Prefect of Police has decided […] to evacuate the participants for medical shelter”, indicates a press release from the prefecture. Settled since May 27, 2022, the migrants intend to protest against the lack of accommodation in the event of legal recourse to obtain the status of unaccompanied minors.
For the police headquarters (PP), this camp-demonstration, which brings together between 80 and 100 people “generates serious public health problems, an epidemic of scabies having been noted there by the regional health agency of Ile-de-France -France “. But according to the Utopia 56 association surrounding the camp, “place de la Bastille, only one case of scabiosis [gale] was diagnosed by Doctors of the World, who informed the ARS immediately. She then denounces a “counterfeit and misleading interpretation with the aim of putting an end to the visibility of these dozens of young people whom the State forces into the streets”.
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Scabies epidemic or isolated case, for the PP, this “event creates a disturbance to public order and endangers not only the occupants of the camp, but also the people and residents who pass through”. As a result, the camp was evacuated by the police and the migrants taken by bus to accommodation places. “The people sheltered will be the subject of health care and treatment against scabies will be provided to them”, specifies the PP. Killing two birds with one stone, the prefecture also evacuated “migrants occupying the camp near the port of Arsenal”.
“While some young people are already in school, the prefecture has refused to confirm the continuity of accommodation until the decision of the children’s judge”, denounces for its part Utopia 56. The association for aid to migrants also announces ” a legal remedy [concernant] these practices of invisibilization, obstruction and stigmatization on the part of the government”.