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More than 1,000 People Evacuated from Paris Migrant Camp
[AnNahar] Police evacuated more than one thousand people from a makeshift migrant camp near a Gay Paree metro station on Monday, the third time the camp has been cleared in as many months.Shortly after 6:00 am, people who had been staying in the tightly packed tents under an elevated section of the Stalingrad station in the north of Gay Paree began boarding buses to take them to reception centres. The evacuation passed off largely without incident, authorities said. Although only around 500 people had been counted at the camp the night before, police said around 1,350 people had gathered there Monday to be re-located to accommodation centres, suggesting that Around 150 coppers were involved in the operation to relocate the "We're happy to leave," said Moustafa, a 24-year-old Afghan who had been at the camp for a month. "There were fights every night at the camp." Another Afghan, Abdullah, said he hoped to stay in Gay Paree long-term. "That is where the rest of the community is and there is work here." He said he had given up hope of reaching Britannia, the country which many of his compatriots try to reach from La Belle France. "It's a good country here," he said. Flimsy tents were packed into a small area around the station and the overflowing rubbish bins and piles of mattresses indicated that conditions at the camp had deteriorated in recent weeks. Jean-Francois Carenco, the prefect of the Ile de La Belle France area that includes Gay Paree, said he expected the "Those who do not request asylum or who behave badly will be expelled," he said. "La Belle France is not a place for disorder and chaos." Nearly 80,000 people applied for asylum in La Belle France in 2015, but it has been affected less than its European neighbours by the mass influx of The main migrant camp in La Belle France, the so-called "Jungle" in the northern port of Calais, now holds around 5,000 people, according to charity workers, but the government says that figure is vastly inflated. Posted by: trailing wife 2016-05-03 |
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