Around 400 young migrants, most of whom are awaiting justice for their minority status, are currently living in the Ivry-sur-Seine (Val-de-Marne) camp, and associations and elected officials are calling for them to be housed in an emergency shelter. . About 200 tents have been set up, some since this summer, at the gates of Paris, on the quays on the banks of the Seine, under the two bridges that link Ivre to Charenton.
For most of them, these vagrant youths, originally from West African countries or Afghanistan, were not recognized as unaccompanied minors (UMA) and filed a complaint with the judge, children, so that they could be monitored by the Child Social Assistance (ASE). ) and settled in the shelter.
“At night, we cannot sleep because of the cold and the noise of cars, the fights are increasing.“Said Adama, who arrived from Ivory Coast and was met by AFP at a luncheon on Thursday. On this November evening, the residents distribute bread, soup, and cheese to them in the rain. According to Agathe Nadimi, president of Les midi du Mie collective, “the situation here becomes critical“. “It is not normal that there is no accommodation solution for these minors“, which may last several months, he laments.
Like all associations present on the ground, including Utopia and Doctors Without Borders, he hopes:urgent asylum solution“because”Every night, new youth come to the camp, rejected by the minority“. “Here is the real example of the horror experienced by minors, these young people were left behind… The state produces crime.confirms Ian Manzi of Utopia.
Alongside them, the PCF mayor of Ivry, Philippe Bouissou, asked the prefecture to open the shelters while the files were being processed. “At the beginning of winter, I am very worried about the health and psychological state of these young people“, he said. This Thursday evening, Senator Esther Benbasa of Paris claims:the condition of these minors, which is getting worse“, and question.But what is the government doing?»
Asked by AFP, the Val-de-Marne department, to which ASE depends, claimed to have “fully aware of the distressing situation“being”availability of state services for The Prefecture did not immediately respond to “all questions related to the protection of children”.
Source: Le Figaro
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