Migrant tents near the Porte d'Aubervilliers in Paris on October 18, 2019. - AFP

Some fifty tents which constituted an informal migrant camp in Aubervilliers (Seine-Saint-Denis) were dismantled by the police on Tuesday morning, two weeks after the evacuation for health reasons of a large camp in the same Parisian suburban city.

Along the Saint-Denis canal, "there were the dismantling of about fifty tents, which were lacerated, and the police asked a hundred people to leave, to return to Paris," explained Louis Barda , responsible for marauding at Médecins du Monde.

Migrants sheltered in gymnasiums have since emerged

According to him, the operation took place "at 9 am during the food distribution". A story corroborated by other associations on site, including Utopia56.

More than 732 migrants who lived in an insanitary slum of Aubervilliers were sheltered on March 24 as part of the fight against the spread of coronavirus. But several dozen of them quickly emerged from the Parisian gymnasiums where they had been confined.

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