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French police dismantles migrant camp in Paris

Xinhua, June 2, 2015 Adjust font size:

French police on Tuesday dismantled "for health requirement" a migrant camp in central-north Paris where more than 300 African migrants had been staying for several months, a government official said.

At 6:30 local time (0430 GMT), security forces started clearing the site located under the metro tracks at La Chapelle subway station in the French capital. The migrants, most of them Sudanese and Eritreans, were all evacuated.

"The camps are places which, in terms of epidemics, in health terms, represent always risks, first to those who live there. So the dismantling of the camp meets a health requirement," Marisol Touraine, Health and Social Affairs Minister told French info radio.

"It is obviously necessary to ensure that each of those who were there to be relocated quickly in the right conditions," she added.

As thousands of illegal migrants and asylum seekers, mainly from the Arab and African conflict-torn countries, tried to reach the other rim of the Mediterranean, France urged the reinforcement of border controls, fighting traffickers of migrants and illegal immigration networks, to bolster cooperation and increase aids to the illegal migrants' native countries. Endit