Hundreds of “homeless refugees” have set up camp outside Paris’s city hall in a mass protest organised by pro-migrant activists.
More than 200 migrants have descended on the French capital’s Place de l’Hotel-de-Ville outside the hall – with numbers now thought to sit north of 230.
More than 200 migrants have descended on the French capital’s Place de l’Hotel-de-Ville
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Nathan Lequeux (pictured), the coordinator of Utopia56’s Paris branch, has vowed not to move ‘until a lasting solution is found’
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Nathan Lequeux, the coordinator of Utopia56’s Paris branch, has vowed not to move “until a lasting solution is found”.
Migrants have been able to access accommodation outside the capital since 2023, the year before last summer’s Games.
“This is the solution we’ve been systematically offered since the Olympics,” Lequeux fumed to InfoMigrants. “It’s not suitable.”
A spokesman for the city hall said that it continues to open “centres in both summer and winter to shelter people and their families”.
“In total, more than 1,000 people under state care are currently sheltering in converted municipal facilities or gymnasiums, in addition to the care of more than 3,000 people with families,” the spokesman added.
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A tent city has been erected outside Paris’s city hall
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PICTURED: Police watch on as migrants set up camp and laugh with volunteers outside the city hall
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PICTURED: Volunteers hold blankets and look on at the migrant camp
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GB News’ Patrick Christys has visited the majority-male Calais camps
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GB NEWSSome of the guide is written in English, but it is mostly in Arabic.
The People’s Channel’s probe into the camps came after it emerged that London has also seen an epidemic of asylum seekers sleeping rough outside the capital’s landmarks.
Scattered around tourist areas, migrants are believed to have set up small tents and cardboard beds.
Footage from the area from earlier this year, meanwhile, appeared to show several men stamping cardboard beds into flowerbeds and urinating on walls.
