They have been wandering in Saint-Saint-Denis for more than a month. Thirty women and twenty children from Côte d’Ivoire and Mali who have taken up residence in a camp in the Josette-et-Maurice-Audin park in Bagnolet are to be evicted soon. By: Parisian The Administrative Court of Montrey has indeed rejected on Tuesday, August 16, a lawsuit by the MyMaraude association, which insisted that these undocumented migrants be resettled in a municipal gymnasium.
Some migrants asked to leave the park refuse accommodation offered by the state
These families were already settled there at the beginning of July. The prefecture of Saint-Saint-Denis had indeed requested the gymnasium of Jean-Reno.to provide emergency shelter to populations in very volatile situationsThe city of Bagnole explained in a press release. However, on August 4, the prefecture informed the city that “the work of the long asylum ends and the requisition of the gymnasium ends with it;“. Women and children were expelled.
But although the state offered them housing solutions, some mothers chose to settle in the park of Josette-et-Maurice-Odin. “Some of them have refused the offer made to them by the state“The municipality confirms this.
On August 18, families were presented with new housing offers. Only four of them accepted these proposals, it is said in the press release of the municipality. “Faced with these repeated refusals to take responsibility, the tools of public authorities are ineffective“, the municipality regrets. “Today, the municipality cannot mobilize more resources“, we add, noting that “All legal instruments will be mobilized without exception to put an end to these illegal activities“.
Source: Le Figaro
