周四早上,数百名居住在巴黎北部临时帐篷营地的移民在警方的大规模突袭中被迫撤离该地区。
1600多人住在查佩尔门和塞纳河-圣德尼斯地区的临时营地,他们被迫登上公共汽车,将他们运送到城市周围设立的临时避难所,据路透社报道。
来自撒哈拉以南非洲和中东的数百名移民,包括许多男子以及一些妇女和儿童,预计将被关押在国家资助的设施中,他们的庇护申请由法国移民当局处理。
庇护申请被拒绝的人预计将离开法国,而有些人可能被驱逐回他们离开的国家。
周四疏散之前,数百人已经在巴黎的临时帐篷营地住了几个月。
近年来,许多人都试图前往巴黎,尤其是在加莱一度扩张的移民营地于2016年大部分被法国当局关闭之后。
然而,最近法国总统埃马纽埃尔·马克龙誓言要打击移民,周四的巴黎大扫荡代表着朝着这个方向迈出的重要一步。
据路透社报道,随着疏散的展开,巴黎警察局长迪迪埃·拉勒元素告诉记者,该市将“不再容忍”搭建临时营地。
拉勒元素誓言在未来几周在拉夏佩勒门和塞纳河-圣丹尼斯地区保持警察存在,以确保移民、寻求庇护者和难民避开该地区。
新闻周刊已联系巴黎警察局和法国政府,寻求进一步评论。
法国和欧洲各地不断涌现的临时营地提供了鲜明的证据,表明该地区的移民危机尚未结束,尽管国际社会对这一问题的关注度有所下降。
事实上,联合国难民事务高级专员办事处(难民署)最近的一份报告显示大量移民、寻求庇护者和难民仍在通过地中海前往欧洲,截至2019年9月30日,已有8万多人通过地中海路线前往该地区。
据难民署称,截至2019年,通过地中海路线抵达欧洲的移民、寻求庇护者和难民中有四分之一以上是儿童,许多人是在没有父母陪伴的情况下抵达欧洲的。
HUNDREDS OF MIGRANTS SET UP THIS MAKESHIFT CAMP IN PARIS—NOW FRENCH PRESIDENT EMMANUEL MACRON IS FORCING THEM OUT
Hundreds of migrants living in makeshift tent camps in northern Paris were forced to clear the area in sweeping police raids on Thursday morning.
More than 1,600 people who had been living at makeshift camp sites in the Porte de la Chapelle and Seine-Saint-Denis area were made to board buses transporting them to temporary shelters set up around the city, according to Reuters.
The hundreds of migrants from sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East, including many men, as well as some women and children, are expected to be held in state-sponsored facilities while their asylum requests are processed by French immigration authorities.
Those whose asylum requests are rejected will be expected to leave France, while some are likely to be deported back to the countries they left.
Before Thursday's evacuation, hundreds of people had been living at the makeshift tent camps in Paris for months.
Many have sought to make their way to Paris in recent years, particularly after a once-sprawling migrant camp in Calais was, for the most part, shut down by French authorities in 2016.
Recently, however, French President Emmanuel Macron has vowed to crack down on immigration, with Thursday's Paris sweep representing a major step in that direction.
As the evacuation unfolded, Paris police prefect Didier Lallement told reporters that the city would "no longer tolerate" the erection of makeshift camp sites, according to Reuters.
Lallement vowed to maintain a police presence in the Porte de la Chapelle and Seine-Saint-Denis area over the coming weeks to ensure that migrants, asylum seekers and refugees would steer clear of the area.
Newsweek has contacted Paris's police department and the French government for further comment.
The makeshift camps that have continued to crop up across France and Europe offer stark evidence that the region's migration crisis is not yet over, despite a dimming international spotlight on the issue.
In fact, a recent report from the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) showed that large numbers of migrants, asylum seekers and refugees are still making their way to Europe via the Mediterranean, with more than 80, 000 people traveling to the region via Mediterranean routes in 2019 as of September 30.
According to the UNHCR, more than a quarter of the migrants, asylum seekers and refugees who arrived in Europe via Mediterranean routes in 2019 up to that date were children, with many arriving without their parents.