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The makeshift camp at the Porte d'Aubervilliers, along the northern ring road, May 16, 2019. CHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULT / AFP

In France, a 28-year-old Somali asylum seeker was found dead in his tent in an insanitary migrant settlement in northeast Paris, this Monday, January 21. The circumstances of his death are not yet known.

The investigation into the causes of death was entrusted to the police station in the 18th district of Paris. It was, according to his receipt for asylum request from a 28-year-old Somali, who had just filed his first request on January 2 in Paris.

The young man had been living " for a few months in Paris, " said Julie Lavayssière, local manager of the association Utopia56, who helps migrants in camps in northeast Paris, and whose teams " knew him well ".

Called by other exiles present on the camp located on the edge of the ring road, a team of Doctors of the World (MdM), which offers medical aid on the spot, " tried to resuscitate " the asylum seeker, in vain, explains again Julie Lavayssière. An MdM official, present on site, confirmed the information and the death.

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More than two months after that of Porte de la Chapelle in northeast Paris, the slum-like encampment of Porte d'Aubervilliers must be vacated before the end of the month, according to the prefecture of the Île-de-France region. of France. Some 1,000 to 2,000 people are crammed into the camp, according to associations' estimates.

(With AFP)