141 migrants who were camping in the city center evacuated and relocated
No CRS cord this time. Just tables, chairs, tall white tents and about 30 social service workers. As announced Friday by the Prefect Etienne Guyot, the migrants, who had been camping for three weeks on the Jules-Guesde alleys, in downtown Toulouse, saw “an evaluation and intervention device” arrive at the stroke of 8 a.m. These young people, mainly from West Africa, had settled there on August 26 following their eviction from a retirement home in the outskirts which they were occupying illegally.
According to a report communicated by the prefecture, 137 people who request their recognition of minority, were able to prove on Tuesday that they had filed an appeal to this effect. Pending the outcome of this process, they have been directed to accommodation centres.
The mayor went to court
Two adults will also be rehoused, this time pending the processing of their asylum application. Finally, two young people were taken in charge by the Departmental Council “for shelter and an assessment of their minority”.
“I was delighted that the people who illegally occupied this public space accepted this outstretched hand”, indicates the prefect of Haute-Garonne.
On Monday, the mayor of Toulouse Jean-Luc Moudenc (LR) had seized the court to request the expulsion of the campers for “obvious disturbance of public order”. The procedure will not have had time to complete.