Migrants

Paris: what's the latest on the situation of the 200 migrants who have been camped outside the Hôtel de Ville for the past week?

In the middle of August, the square in front of Paris City Hall became a makeshift camp, sheltering hundreds of homeless people. In the space of a week, their numbers have risen from 200 to 350, a stark symbol of the summer shortage of emergency accommodation. Police evacuated the camp at dawn on Tuesday August 12.

ECHR to condemn France over “inhuman living conditions” for asylum-seekers

The European Court of Human Rights has condemned France over lack of assistance to asylum-seekers, having to live “in the street” and “without any resources”. This is the fourth time this month that the ECHR condemns France.