Europe 1 with AFP 5:34 p.m., May 4, 2022
More than a hundred migrants, mainly from Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire or Mali, were taken care of on Tuesday after the evacuation of their Paris camp.
But a third of them were immediately returned to the street as soon as they arrived in the center where they were to be accommodated.
About a third of the young migrants who benefited from a sheltering operation on Tuesday after the evacuation of their Parisian camp were "immediately returned to the street", denounced this Wednesday the association which comes to their aid. .
"It's the first time it's happened, that they can't even get into the center (accommodation) when it's the prefecture that directed them there. It's up to them to make sure that the center will welcome them," lamented Pierre Mathurin, Parisian manager of Utopia 56.
According to the association which works with exiles on the street, "about thirty" of them, mainly from Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire or Mali, have in fact had to sleep in a Parisian square despite the promise of taking supported by the authorities.
A "notification of end of support" as soon as they arrive
The prefecture of the Ile-de-France region, which organized the operation on Tuesday, had indicated in a press release that 108 people had been "taken care of" and transferred to accommodation centers in the Ile-de-France region.
"All the people taken care of (...) are offered accommodation", had underlined the prefecture.
However, some thirty young people "received a notification of the end of care" upon their arrival in a center in Clichy (Hauts-de-Seine), on the grounds that they are "unaccompanied minors in recourse" (they are waiting for a court decision to certify that they are under 18) which prevents them from being accommodated in a center reserved for asylum seekers, still regrets Pierre Mathurin.
Asked by AFP, the Ile-de-France prefecture did not respond.