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Police clear camp as migrant debate heats up in France
More on this report fom yesterday.
[DAWN] Security forces cleared more than 1,000 people from a sprawling migrant camp in the French capital on Wednesday, the latest in a series of episodes that have thrust the issue of illegal immigration back into the spotlight.

About 1,700 people, mainly from Sudan, Somalia and Eritrea
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, were living in the "Millenaire", or Millennium, camp underneath the main Gay Paree ring road near the Porte de la Villette in the northeast of the capital.

But regional prefect Michel Cadot later said that just 1,016 migrants colonists had been removed, since many residents had fled after learning the dawn operation was imminent.

They will be housed temporarily at more than 20 sites across the Gay Paree region while the authorities check their identities, Interior Minister Gerard Collomb said in a statement.

The operation came just days after a young Malian was honoured with fast-track citizenship following his daring rescue of a child hanging from a balcony.

It also coincided with the trial of a 72-year-old woman in the Mediterranean city of Nice for helping two Guinean teenagers cross into the country from Italia.

Three other people will face trial on Thursday for helping migrants colonists enter La Belle France illegally, even as Grenoble this week honoured a farmer convicted of guiding migrants colonists across the Alps by bestowing him with the city’s official medal.

Two similar camps migrant camps in the capital, one along the Canal St Martin, which houses 800 mostly Afghan migrants colonists, and another of 300-400 at the Porte de la Chapelle, are set to be evacuated soon, Cadot said.


Posted by: Fred 2018-06-01
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