350 exiles demonstrate in Paris for shelter in the face of the arrival of snow
By Olivia Kouassi
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Despite the activation of the extreme cold plan by the city of Paris Monday, December 12, 2022, more than 300 exiles spent the night of Tuesday December 13 to Wednesday December 14 outside in freezing temperatures. Installed under the metro in the La Chapelle district in the 18th arrondissement of the capital, they have quirky to be sheltered before the arrival of snow on the evening of December 13, 2022.
Already two evacuations
It was therefore nearly 350 exiles on the street who configured and blocked traffic around the camp on Tuesday December 13, 2022 to obtain a emergency accommodation solution while Météo France placed Paris and its surroundings in orange vigilance against the risk of snowfall and iceWednesday, December 14, 2022.
A demonstration which takes place a few days after the arrival of the mayor of the capital Anne Hidalgo. Stayed at the camp entrance, the aedile momentarily changed to English with an exile before speaking to the press. Under the aerial metro, Anne Hidalgo has pass the buck to the state in the management of some 300 migrants settled on the boulevard de la Chapelle, calling on the government to “work to shelter people on the street”.
Of the tensions quickly broke out following the intervention of the police. LBD and tear gas fired to disperse the demonstrators who were not sheltered during the night of Tuesday 13 to Wednesday 14 December.
three weeks later a first evacuation, the police and the services of the prefecture carried out a new evacuation under the La Chapelle metro station in the 18 arrondissement on November 17, 2022.
956 people were evacuated and sheltered, according to the Prefecture of Police, exclusively single men before the camp reformed after a few days. The camp originally formed in late summer 2022, after the evacuation on September 28, 2022 of a camp near the Canal de l’Ourcq, rue Delphine Seyrig.
The City announced on December 2, 2022 the provision of 1,000 additional places distributed in all the arrondissements and which should be added “to the 6,000 accommodation places made available or financed by the City of Paris”.
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