The reception center for Ukrainian refugees will close this Sunday. The prefecture of the Ile-de-France region (Prif) will dedicate another space, more modest, to orientation and emergency accommodation reserved for these displaced persons.
Since mid-March, people fleeing the war in Ukraine have been cared for in a hall at the Parc des Expositions at Porte de Versailles in Paris, where a space is dedicated to administrative procedures and another to emergency accommodation. before housing.
A new center at the Paris Event Center
“The closure of this site being scheduled for August 28, a new reception center for displaced Ukrainians will open on this date” at the Paris Event Center, a space in the 19th arrondissement of the capital regularly used during operations migrant shelter, the prefecture said in a statement.
The prefecture did not explain the reasons for this move. But for several weeks, the deceleration of the arrivals of Ukrainian refugees – who are now more than 100,000 in France – has led to the gigantic Parc des Expositions being left almost empty, including a hall of more than 22,000m² reserved exclusively for them.
Misunderstanding in the associative world
A situation which has aroused the incomprehension of the associative fabric at a time when many exiles of other nationalities are living on the streets in or around the capital: several associations and NGOs demonstrated at the beginning of July in front of the Parc des Expositions to demand that all displaced persons can have access to this shelter.
From Sunday, at the more modest Paris Event Center, the reception of Ukrainian refugees “will remain unchanged”, underlined the prefecture of Ile-de-France to AFP.