French authorities on Wednesday evicted hundreds of migrants from a squat in a southern suburb of Paris with just 100 days to go until the Olympics, encouraging them to board buses to other parts of France.
Charities have accused the authorities of seeking to clear homeless people from the French capital to make it look…
Buses waited outside, ready to take them to the central city of Orleans or the southwestern city of Bordeaux.“I want to stay here,” said Abakar, a 29-year-old from Sudan who did not give his second name.– ‘Bordeaux is nice’ –“You know in France, there isn’t just Paris. Bordeaux is nice, it’s warmer than here,” she said.
“There are spaces in shelters near Paris, but clearly they want to move them away from the capital. Especially before the Olympics,” said Paul Alauzy, a representative from medical charity Medecins du Monde . The Northern Professionals Movement and the People’s Democratic Party, Elders Support Group have called for the suspension of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike for alleged anti-party activities. In a statement jointly released by the two groups ahead of the party’s National Executive Council meeting…
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