Police began clearing up the camp in the suburbs of Paris in the morning, where up to 2,400 migrants have gradually settled since August. The camp in the suburb of Saint-Denis was established directly at the Stade de France.
According to the AFP agency, the police headed to the camp on Tuesday and started evacuating its inhabitants, who should move to asylum centers and gyms in Paris and its surroundings.
According to the AFP agency, the camp has so far been inhabited mainly by young men from Afghanistan, but also from Sudan, Ethiopia and Somalia.
“These camps are unacceptable,” Paris Prefect Dider Lallement said today. According to him, the aim of the event is for people with a residence permit to be placed in suitable premises and those without a permit to be deported. According to AFP, all migrants will be tested for coronavirus before accommodation.
The evacuation of the camp in Saint-Denis, where people live “in deplorable hygienic conditions”, was welcomed in Twitter by Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin.
“It’s really the worst camp we’ve seen in years,” Alix Geoffroy, a representative of a Catholic charity that helps migrants, said today. However, if the French asylum system does not change, it will soon create another camp in another place.
French police regularly evacuate migrant camps, which are being set up mainly in and around the metropolis and in the northern French city of Calais. Around the capital, police last destroyed a large migrant camp in July in Aubervilliers, in northern France, in late September.
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