French police evicted around 100 migrants from a makeshift tent camp near the city hall in Paris on Tuesday ahead of the Olympic Games.
The dawn operation, which prompted renewed accusations of “social cleansing”, saw police order the migrants to pack their tents and belongings.
While the group, mostly teenage boys and young men from West Africa, many of whom were children awaiting papers, were offered temporary housing in the Loire-region town of Angers, only three boarded the bus.
Paris police said the operation was conducted for security reasons, notably because the camp was near schools.
“We call it ‘nettoyage social,’ or social cleansing, as there’s no proper solution(s) that are proposed to the people,” he told AP, alleging that people are being swept aside to make “room for the beautiful Paris postcard."
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