French police have started
evacuating migrants on Thursday from an illegal camp site in northern Paris,
the local police force said in a statement, as the government aims to show it
is taking a tougher stance on illegal immigration.
The police said it
would be moving between 200-300 people from the illegal site in northern Paris’
Porte d’Aubervilliers, and putting them up in shelters.
Since the closure of a
huge migrant camp in Calais in 2016, many refugees have moved to Paris.
Authorities haves repeatedly dismantled illegal campsites only to see them pop
up again in different areas a few months later.
Earlier this month,
President Emmanuel Macron’s government pledged to clear out some migrant tent
camps, impose quotas for migrant workers and deny newly-arrived asylum seekers
access to non-urgent healthcare, in a response to voters’ concerns about
immigration.
