After the Lampedusa affair, it is the French capital’s turn to be at the center of a lively controversy. About sixty people, mostly Tunisians newly arrived in France by Italian borders, were to be placed in police custody on Tuesday evening in Paris and Seine-Saint-Denis (Parisian suburbs) for “offense to the legislation on the stay”, reports the point.
These Tunisians are among the 200 who joined French territory, where they are in poor living conditions, after reaching Lampedusa. Two French associations, namely France Terre d’Asile and Emmaüs, raised the alert. These associations were dispatched by the mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoë, who finds himself between indignation and embarrassment in the face of the total indifference of the French State towards these refugees. It is, under the unique initiative of the town hall that an emergency financial assistance of 100,000 euros will be unlocked to help these Tunisians.
The French state just launched a legal proceedings against these asylum seekers. The judge who takes care of the case was to rule, today, on Wednesday on possible evictions.
