Paris to Open First Refugee Camp Mid-October
Paris will open its first refugee camp in mid-October, Mayor Anne Hidalgo said Tuesday, announcing a center solely for men with an initial capacity of 400.
The emergency center, which will be housed in an old railway site in the north of Paris, aims to replace the makeshift camps that keep springing up around the city.
Hidalgo, who had announced in May that the camp would be created, said asylum-seekers would be allowed stay there for "five to 10 days" and would receive medical and psychological care.
A second center, for women and children only, will be opened in Ivry-sur-Seine to the southeast of Paris by the end of the year, she told a press conference.
Hidalgo, a Socialist, said the 6.5-million-euro ($7.2 million) Paris center aimed to take asylum-seekers off the streets while they wait for a place in a refugee hostel.
The announcement comes as yet another makeshift camp housing several hundred people in northern Paris was dismantled by police on Tuesday morning.
Source: Agence France Presse
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