More than 200 migrants living on the street by the Seine were evacuated on Tuesday from their informal camp in Paris and transferred to half of them to reception centers in different regions, the authorities announced.
The authorities carried out a shelter operation early in the morning for people sleeping on the street in the area of Quai d’Austerlitz in the 13th arrondissement of Paris.
“Of the 221 people taken care of at Quai d’Austerlitz, 100 of them were taken care of and directed to temporary reception facilities in the region,” the prefectures said.
Since April, over 2,800 people have been transferred to reception centers in different regions, opened by the government to help migrants living on the streets in the Ile-de-France region, where camps reappear at regular intervals and where emergency accommodation is chronically saturated.
Seveal dozen associations, who have formed a collective called “the flip side of the coin,” have been denouncing the “social cleansing” of the Paris region in recent weeks, gradually emptied of its most precarious populations living on the streets in preparation for the 2024 Olympic Games: migrants, homeless people, sex workers, people living in shantytowns, etc.
In the reception centers, the authorities defended in their statement, “People taken in are provided with an evaluation of their administrative situation, as well as social and health support, with their consent.”
On Tuesday, the authorities carried out the 32nd operation of the year in the Paris region, with 5,963 people being taken care of in 2023.
