06 de septiembre de 2016, 08:51Paris, Sep 6 (Prensa Latina) The authorities of Paris will open in mid-October a first reception center for migrants to help manage better the arrival of undocumented workers in this capital, today announced its mayor, Anne Hidalgo.
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On Tuesday, she said that asylum-seekers would be allowed stay there for “five to 10 days” to get their bearings and decide whether they wished to seek asylum, and would receive medical and psychological care.
“It’s critical that these vulnerable people don’t end up at the mercy of evil people traffickers and it’s really important we see the Jungle dismantled as quickly as possible, and that any camp is far away from Calais”. It will be opened by the year-end in the southern Paris suburb of Ivry-sur-Seine, according to the mayor.
The women’s shelter will have 350 places.
Hidalgo said the camps would be a haven for homeless migrants living within the city and that it would follow United Nations regulations.
Hostility towards migrants, particularly Muslim migrants, has been growing in France in recent months.
Truck drivers, farmers and Calais business owners on Monday blocked traffic on the motorway approach to Calais, demanding a deadline for dismantling of the “jungle”.
Paris previously closed two unofficial camps set up by charities a year ago. “If more sites need to be created, we will do so if necessary”.
She said she was inspired by work at Grande-Synthe in Dunkirk, on France’s northern coast, where the country’s first internationally recognised refugee camp opened earlier this year.
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Around 80,000 people applied for asylum in France a year ago, 20,000 more than in 2014, but only a fraction of the one million asylum requests received by Germany.
