Thread: Migrants camp on Paris streets

Migrants camp on Paris streets

Ingrid Melander, Reuters
October 28, 2016 11:50pm


The number of migrants sleeping rough on the streets of Paris has risen by at least a third since the start of the week when the "Jungle" shanty town in Calais was evacuated, officials say.

Along the bustling boulevards and a canal in a northeastern corner of Paris, hundreds of tents have been pitched by migrants - mostly Africans who say they are from Sudan - with cardboard on the ground to try and insulate them from the autumn chill.

While the presence of migrants there is not new, it has grown substantially this week, Colombe Brossel, Paris deputy mayor in charge of security issues, told Reuters.

"We have seen a big increase since the start of the week. Last night, our teams counted 40 to 50 new tents there in two days," Brossel said, adding there was now a total of 700 to 750.

This means there are some 2000-2500 sleeping in the area, up from around 1500 a few days before, she said.

After years as serving as an illegal base camp for migrants trying to get to Britain, the Jungle at Calais was finally bulldozed this week and the more than 6000 residents of the ramshackle camp near the English channel were relocated to shelters around France.

France's asylum chief Pascal Brice said the arrivals in Paris did not mean there had been a wholesale movement from the Jungle to the capital.

Between the Stalingrad and Jaures metro stations in Paris, migrants who spent the night camped out on the median strip of a major road, with traffic passing on either side, had scattered on Friday morning, many carrying their tents while police patrolled the centre of the boulevard.

Migrants and officials said police checked ID papers and asylum requests and later let the migrants return to the central strip of the avenue where they put their tents back up.

Authorities said the newcomers did not come only from Calais. Others did but had arrived before the dismantlement of the camp.

The city of Paris has plans to open two migrant centres but they would only have a total capacity of fewer than 1000 beds.

Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said later on Friday that the Paris makeshift camp would be dismantled in the coming days.
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New migrant camp sets up in the heart of Paris just a 10-minute walk from the Eurostar terminal

Charities have reported an influx of new migrants into the French capital

A large cluster of tents has sprung up around the Stalingrad Metro station

‘It is already being called the Paris Jungle,’ said a 20-year-old Ethiopian

French asylum chief denied there has been a wholesale relocation to Paris

By GLEN KEOGH AND PETER ALLEN IN PARIS AND MARIO LEDWITH IN CALAIS FOR THE DAILY MAIL
PUBLISHED: 21:22 GMT, 28 October 2016 | UPDATED: 22:39 GMT, 28 October 2016

Thousands of UK-bound migrants left homeless in Calais were flooding into new ‘Jungle’-style camps yesterday in the heart of Paris.

Charities reported an influx of arrivals in the French capital. Most had refused to go to official centres set up by authorities following the demolition of the Calais Jungle.

A large cluster of tents has sprung up around the Stalingrad Metro station, a ten-minute walk from the Eurostar hub at Gare du Nord.


Migrants have set up camp (pictured) in central Paris near Stalingrad Station after the Jungle camp in
Calais closed this week

‘It is already being called the Paris Jungle,’ said Mohammed Hussein, a 20-year-old Ethiopian sharing a tent with four friends.

‘All of us had trouble getting to England from Calais, but we’ll now be able to try again from here. Our dream is to get to England as quickly as possible.’

Colombe Brossel, Paris deputy mayor in charge of security, admitted: ‘We have seen a big increase since the start of the week.

‘Last night our teams counted 40 to 50 new tents there in two days.’ She said there were now 500 to 750.

‘It’s not a huge explosion in numbers but there is a clear increase. Some of them come from Calais, others from other places.’

But France’s asylum chief Pascal Brice denied that the arrivals in Paris meant there had been a wholesale relocation from the Jungle to the capital.


Colombe Brossel, Paris deputy mayor in charge of security, admitted the city had seen 'a big increase'
in migrants camping on the streets since the start of the week

He explained: ‘There might be some movements at the margins towards Paris but what is crucial is that those 6,000 people have been protected.’

There are fears that other former camps on the French coast could also see the return of migrants. Migrants at the Jungle have said they would rather die than give up on their dreams of reaching Britain, despite being offered asylum in France.

A Somalian family in the new tent city said the destruction of the Jungle would ‘never stop us’.

Najib Omar and his wife Leyla, both 27, said: ‘It is not a place for a family, but we will stay here until we can finally get to England.’ The pair have an 18-month-old son called Imran.

Abdulhamid Ediss, a 20-year-old from Eritrea, said: ‘We’ve been in Calais for a number of months, but were forced out of the Jungle. France does not want us, but we can continue to plan our trips to England from here.’

Hocine Djabella, a restaurant owner, said the tent city was scaring off customers: ‘I have lived in the area for 25 years and have never seen such a terrible situation. They have taken a serious problem in one part of France and just displaced it to another.’

A total of 5,596 people have been evacuated since the operation to raze the Calais Jungle began on Monday morning.

While most have been bussed to 450 resettlement centres around France, others are thought to have travelled away independently. Paris’s first official refugee camp is due to open within the next few days.


A total of 5,596 people have been evacuated since the operation to raze the Calais Jungle began on
Monday morning


The Calais camp was burnt down and pulled down (pictured) this week, giving no place for migrants
to shelter

In June, police officers wearing body armour and carrying shields raided a makeshift camp, located near the Eurostar terminal, and ordered its inhabitants on to coaches. But their efforts to permanently expel migrants from the area have been ineffective.

n October was a record monthly high for the number of migrants arriving in Italy in recent years. The interior ministry in Rome said 26,161 people – almost all from West Africa and the Horn of Africa – have arrived this month.

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Our cities are being ruined, whether Paris or London or anywhere U.S.A. They are being trashed by globalists, by poor immigration policies, by lack of enforcement measures and no real respect for borders and sovereignty.

So, slowly Western Europe, the gem of the Caucasian people, is being turned into a third world crap hole, dirty, dangerous, crime, brutality, stench, disease and rape. And the gutless cowards of Europeans are allowing to this to happen to them. They have been entrusted with 1500—2000 years of culture and they allow it to be broken and trashed.

They make me sick to my stomach. I have nothing but contempt and disgust for a people who do nothing to protect something so precious as culture and civilization itself.

Patriots, it is coming here. Do not let this happen to us. From now to election work mightily and contribute money mightily to get Trump elected. Yes take time off from work, get “sick” to have time to work for Trump. DON’T LET THIS DISASTER COME HERE!!

This disaster is already coming here. They are pouring over our borders as Obama - Clinton's are flying them in at OUR expense! This must stop and they ALL be sent back. They cause problems in every community they are being dumped into.

Europe should load them up on barges and send them back. Also, apprehend them at sea and tow them right back to the shores they left.

Obama should be removed from office NOW and our Military deployed to our borders to turn them all right back around. Mexico is profiting from and facilitating this invasion of our Country. I just hope when President Trump gets in office that Mexico will PAY and pay big time for this.

Australia has got it right...they locked down and now none of them get in. This must be done on all our borders worldwide.

You cannot allow thousands and thousands of MEN roam the streets!

Police move in on bulging Paris migrant camp

Latest update : 2016-10-31

French police have begun a vast operation to check the “administrative status” of hundreds of migrants amassed in a makeshift camp in northeastern Paris, days after thousands of people were moved from a larger camp in Calais.

Officers backed by riot police converged Monday morning on the streets around Stalingrad subway station, where an estimated 2,000 people are gathered on the pavements.

Police were seen carrying out checks on the migrants, possibly in preparation for a future evacuation of the site.

Pictures tweeted by FRANCE 24's Charlotte Boitiaux highlighted the camp's dire sanitary conditions.

Migrant camps routinely sprout up in Paris, are cleared out, and then sprout up again. Paris regional authorities say 19,000 migrants have been shifted to temporary housing since June 2015.

The makeshift camps have become visible symbols of the country's struggle to accommodate migrants and refugees seeking better lives in Europe.

On Saturday, President François Hollande vowed to shut down the bulging new camp in Paris, saying such encampments were “not worthy” of France.

He played down concerns that the closure of the so-called Calais “Jungle” last week had driven its residents to the sidewalks of Paris.

Most migrants recently amassing around the station are part of a "new migratory current coming from Libya these last weeks and months", Hollande said.

Hollande insisted that France would shelter asylum-seekers and deport those without the right to asylum. The migrants in Calais and Paris include war refugees, as well as people fleeing poverty and seeking jobs.

Hollande said 5,000 migrants were evacuated from the Calais camp last week and transferred to some 450 reception centres around France. He met Saturday with migrants taken to a centre in Doué-la-Fontaine in western France.

About 1,500 underage migrants remain in Calais in a special shelter, and Hollande urged British authorities to "do their part" to settle them in Britain.

Anti-immigrant sentiment in both Britain and France has complicated efforts to address the long-running migrant drama.

Police move in on bulging Paris migrant camp - France 24

Au revoir, and good riddance: A wasteland is all that remains of the Calais Jungle camp… as Hollande vows it will NEVER be allowed to return

Violent clashes break out on the streets of Paris after clearance of Calais Jungle

JAMIE BULLEN 15 minutes ago






Migrants armed with bats and clubs clashed during a mass brawl in Paris hours after authorities cleared an illegal camp.

Men brandishing makeshift weapons and attacked one another during running street battles near Stalingrad subway station on Monday night.

The cause of the fight remains unknown but comes in the wake of an influx of thousands of migrants in Paris following the destruction of the Calais “Jungle” camp.

Riot police were forced to push migrants back into an emergency cordon which sparked retaliations as tensions boiled over on the streets of the French capital earlier that day.



Street battles: Migrants armed with makeshift weapons clashed in Stalingrad (Rex)


Tensions: It came hours after tents were cleared as part of a police operation (Rex)

The flashpoint came hours after police cleared away some tents belonging to Afghan migrants along a canal amid Government efforts to tackle the refugee crisis.

Shikhali Mirzai, a young man who said he arrived in Paris from Afghanistan five days ago, said he did not understand why the police are destroying their tents.



Violence: The battles took place on the streets on Monday (Rex)


He said: "Where are these people going to sleep? It's very cold. It's very cold. This isn't a life, it's an animal's life."

While charity worker Houssam El Assimi, of local aid group La Chappelle Debout, held a sign reading "No to police raids against migrants".

Monday’s operation is believed to be the 27th in the city in which police sort people based on whether they have papers and the right to seek asylum.

Authorities say they have cleared out more than 19,000 migrants from Paris since June last year.

Meanwhile in Calais, authorities are finishing up the dismantling of the "Jungle" which has come to epitomise Europe's migrant crisis.

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Unbelievable what is happening over there.