Paris (AFP)
The president of the Ile-de-France region Valérie Pécresse announces, in an interview with the newspaper 20minutes.fr, want to set up "solidarity houses" to "shelter the homeless of the metro" Paris.
"I want to create before the winter houses on a human scale, which are places to welcome in Paris for long stays, day and night, for people in situations of great exclusion, with appropriate responses" and "personalized", explains the president of the transport authority Ile-de-France Mobilités.
"I want a lasting cure with places, day and night, for the long term, with social, medical, psychological and insertion, some may even stay for several years," she says, specifying have worked with the mayor of Paris, the regional prefecture and associations to identify possible sites.
"At this stage, a house could open in the 13th, in a former high school, property of the Region", continues the president of the region Ile-de-France. Others could see the light of day "in the 17th, 5th and 1st arrondissement, in the premises of the town hall, which will disappear in 2020. The idea is to have several houses scattered, each with specific support ", she adds.
"Today there are between 200 and 350 people depending on the seasons that live in the metro, sometimes for years, you have to take care of them.We can not accept that when the metro closes, it remains the world in ", judge Ms. Pécresse, which specifies that in return for this device," it will no longer be possible to sleep in the transport network. "
It also emphasizes that "these solidarity houses will not be accessible to migrants in an irregular situation", which "come under prefectural accommodation".
? 2019 AFP