The police evacuated Friday, September 23 in the morning a camp grouping together a hundred unaccompanied foreign minors, installed since the end of May at Place de la Bastille in Paris, announced the police headquarters, which highlights “public health issues“.
A “scabies epidemic“was observed in this camp set up by the association for aid to migrants Utopia 56 Paris, indicated in a press release the police headquarters, evoking a “disturbance of public order“. The situation put indanger not only the occupants of the camp, but also the people and residents who pass through Place de la Bastille every day“, According to this same source.
The authorities therefore ordered theshelter“young migrants and chartered buses”to transport them to places of accommodation“. They will be offered treatment for scabies, the police headquarters added. This evacuationdisguises an obstacle to the freedom to demonstrate“, denounced for its part the association Utopia 56, which had set up this camp in order to alert on the situation of young migrants on the street and to request the creation of specific support and accommodation structures for unaccompanied minors. .
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Only one case of scabies was diagnosed on Place de la Bastille, says Utopia 56, for whom the authorities want “put an end to the visibility (of) dozens of young people whom the State forces into the streets“. Some of the young people evacuated Friday from the Place de la Bastille are in school, but the prefecture has sent them to “accommodation for adults in Ile-de-France“, deplores Utopia 56, which announces that it wants to initiate a “legal recourseagainst this decision.
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