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POLICE IN PARIS have moved out nearly 2,800 migrants who had been living rough in the north of the city.
This comes as part of their latest operation to ease strains caused by a human influx to Europe.
The evacuation, which went ahead smoothly, entailed moving out migrants who had been living around an aid centre set up in the Porte de la Chapelle area last November.
The Paris regional authority said 2,771 people, including 161 described as “vulnerable”, were taken mainly to school gymnasiums that have become available during the summer holidays.
Charity groups took part in the operation.
Officials had been expecting to move out 1,600 migrants.
However Francois Ravier, a senior regional official, said:
Experience shows that there are always more people than estimated.
Paris became a gathering point for migrants after the closure last October of the notorious ‘jungle’ near Calais – a makeshift camp near the Channel coast where thousands lived in the hope of climbing aboard trucks or trains to get into Britain.
Past evacuations
Today’s evacuation was the 34th to take place in Paris in the last two years. The previous operation was on 9 May, when more than 1,600 migrants were moved out from the same area.
Aid workers said around 200 more migrants had been coming into the area every week recently, raising security and hygiene concerns and causing tensions with locals.
Europe’s migrant influx began in 2015, centering on Greece, where hundreds of thousands of people, many of them fleeing war and poverty in the Middle East and Afghanistan, crossed from Turkey.
The crisis receded in 2016 under an agreement with Turkey to clamp down on illegal border crossings.
However, it revived this year, focusing instead on sea crossings from Libya to Italy, mostly by people from sub-Saharan Africa.
Yesterday, EU interior ministers pledged to back a plan to help Italy, which has accepted around 85,000 people since the start of the year and says it is overwhelmed.
The city of Paris today called for the creation of reception centres along the route typically taken by migrants once they arrive in France, notably in the southern port of Nice and the southeastern city of Lyon.
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How many women and children are amongst these migrants? It’s well past time for bleeding hearts liberals to stop lying to themselves. People have been played, their good-natured sense of charity has been taken advantage of.
This is the kalergi plan in full affect. Is no accident globalists have been working towards this for years.
@John Fergus:
precisely. and also, when have we seen an article in the mainstream media how it is that unaccompanied “young children” have managed to march thousands of miles across desert, crossed borders – unchecked – in Africa, the Middle East and much of Europe, while all the while feeding and watering themselves. And then expect us to believe it.
Unreal.
@John Fergus: It’s funny how all these pro-migrant propaganda pieces are penned by the associated French press. The journal just runs with them.
What happens when schools open? Where are these migrants shipped to then? Public services like health and housing are already past breaking point, how are they supposed to handle tens of thousands of economic migrants been dumped on them? Has anybody actually given this any thought? What is the end game plan here?
@John Fergus: Ship them back to Africa. Most of them arrived via Libya so dump them back on the beach in Libya.
@Mick Jordan: Funny how there was never any problem with migrants coming from Libya before Gaddafi was removed…. The democratization of the country has killed hundreds of thousands and now is helping to destroy Europe from inside out.
Call me cynical but I suspect most of this chaos is by design.
Funny how “refugees” to Europe always seem to be young single fit males doesn’t it. You’d almost swear they were illegal economic migrants.
@Fred Jensen: They’re all only 10 years old. Allegedly.
@Good Early: You both sounds like Orban or Trump !
@cortisola: …then what? Get over here at least 10k of this friendly fellas and lets talk again!
No wonder Austria is perfectly right to close her borders to stop immigrants entering from Italy. Italy should have sent back them to Libya instead because we have no room for them & who would want to see them sleeping rough in our streets?
@Thosj Carroll: what ever happened to a bit of old-fashioned decency for your fellow human being?
@Dr Richard DeWitt: I’d be quite sure that we give international aid to their countries of origin .
I feel it’s like giving money to a homeless person , only to find them climbing your garden wall wanting into your house .
@Ken Hayden: :)
@Ken Hayden: very good!
@Dr Richard DeWitt: look after your own first.in Dublin .bleeding hart.
Seeing as they are described as refugees in the headline I assume they have been processed and granted refugee status by France.
@Beachmaster: 99% would economic migrants contrary to what the headline says.
@Mick Jordan: Some people say we owe them all privileges we got here in the west – they mention “decency for your fellow human being” for example…
“Experience shows that there are always more people than estimated.”
Yeah, we have always know that.
But most politicians and mainstream media always seem to err on the low side when it comes to matters such as this.
Funny, that…
@Ó Connmhaigh: I was conducting business with an Nigerian gentleman a few years back. It came out in the news that there were only 27,000 or 37,000 adults in Ireland, and only about 20% of those registered as working. He burst out laughing. He said that you’d find twice that at Mass on a Sunday. And as for only 20% working. “Do you see how many taxi drivers there are?”
Pfff, where to start… In spite of the EU finally agreeing that boat migrants should be picked up by North African countries and returned there instead of taken to Italy, this is seemingly going to take years and years to sort out.
One of the big problems here is the unwillingness of countries of origin to take back people refused refugee status. And Germany had a hard lesson in that the perpetrator of the christmas market attack was a Tunesian national refused refugee status.
But the EU and Tunesia have been negotiating the return of their nationals for years, without much success. Tunesia is one of these states who say, left our country? Well, so long, you’re not our problem and you’re not coming back. And Libya is not even a state, so good luck, lads…
UN-6 out of 10 migrants are here for the milk and honey…http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/six-out-of-10-migrants-to-europe-come-for-economic-reasons-and-are-not-refugees-eu-vice-president-a6836306.html
EU countries decline to open ports as relief for Italy’s migrant influx https://www.rt.com/news/395602-italy-ports-eu-migrants/
The migrants know that won’t be granted refugee status so they will leave the official reception centres and camp somewhere else, demanding to enter the country of there choice. If the EU continues to do nothing it will get worse by the year, population boom in Africa with 60% under 24 years of age, the stats are crazy average woman in Niger has 7.9 children in a country that is mainly desert
Welcome to Europe!
They treat animals better than women, with home grown ignorance, cruelty, brutality and disrespect.
Academically and well, educated Muslim women in western society agree with this synopsis. They are systematically and purposefully blind and full of disregard for us
You choose to live by the rule of man, who ‘Married’ and ‘Raped’ an eight year old child.
@Andi Black: ah here!
@Dr Richard DeWitt: Yeah! (she was nine years old actually)
It’s the human equivalent of northern Ireland, just a big mess that nobody wants.
@Scundered: ????? , Early start tonight ?
@Ken Hayden: haha tis true though :)
Poland, Hungary and the Czechs have the right idea. They see the problems germany and Austria are having. We are spoon fed a false image so we will accept our quota of young economic migrants, we must remember we we’re never a colonizing nation, quite the opposite. We made no money from the wars in the middle east through weapons, oil or infrastructure. So considering the many needy we have here why clean up a mess caused by others, charity begins at home
All bloody African males,,,,,
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