Migrants camping on Paris city hall forecourt evacuated

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00:00A six-day occupation of the town hall square in Paris ended on Tuesday, leaving behind

00:06placards that read, give us decent housing. And hundreds of migrants, many with young

00:11children, were either corralled onto buses or left wondering where to go next.

00:16There's no solution. I don't know what to do. Once everyone leaves this place, I don't

00:23know if we'll end up sleeping at the Utopia Centre again, spending our days there at the

00:27day centre. That's what life is like for us. Last week, migrants charity Utopia 56 gathered

00:35a large group of unhoused migrants to camp in front of the city hall and demand accommodation.

00:41Many of them had been struggling for some time. My partner has his papers. He found a permanent

00:47job, but we don't have anywhere to live. We called the emergency services number, but they've

00:52only housed us one night since the 30th of June.

00:56On Tuesday though, police vans arrived to evacuate the square and coaches rolled up to take the

01:02migrants to other cities across France to stay in temporary accommodation centres. But

01:08for many, it's a non-solution.

01:10I work here in Paris. I can't leave my job. I cannot quit a permanent contract just for

01:15three days of accommodation somewhere else. If it doesn't work out, it's temporary. I will

01:19lose everything at the same time.

01:21Some are choosing between having a job and having a home, and others between having a

01:25home and keeping their family together, in cases where one parent has a job in Paris.

01:31The hot summer months are a dangerous time to sleep rough, with many food distribution and

01:35hygiene services closed due to holidays. And high temperatures, sometimes in the upper 30s

01:42in France, compound already harsh living conditions.

01:45The hot summer months are smaller.

01:47The hot summer months are almostalleInc kantor and keeping their bodies warm.

01:48It's dangerous to know the flow.

01:49But we have to go outside, the hot summer months, and the hot summer months.

01:51The hot summer months are still lonely.

01:52But we are on Tuesday for 8.

01:54Oh, it's not about because of the hot summer months.

01:55And the hot summer months are still looking for for men, which is maybe the hot summer months.

01:58That means not only in theublang

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