Paris Authorities Erect Barricades at Site of Former Migrant Camp

Paris city workers installed barricades near Stalingrad metro station on November 7 after authorities cleared thousands from a makeshift migrant camp in the area in recent days.French authorities began evicting more than 3,000 people from the camp in Paris on Friday, November 4, according to local reports. Between 2,000 and 3,000 migrants had been sleeping rough in the area for several months, a number that spiked sharply after the closure of the Jungle camp in Calais. Local prefecture services said that in the previous week an estimated 4,000 people had been sheltering at the Paris camp.
According to a Le Parisien report on November 7, pro-refugee activists at the site were told the barricades were erected for a sporting event. Residents and aid workers were cited in the report as saying hundreds of migrants, including children, were left wandering the streets after the camp was cleared, seeking shelter. Credit: YouTube/Clément Lanot