Traveler –A new illegal gypsy camp in Lausanne
About twenty caravans have been set up in the La Bourdonnette car park since last Friday. An expulsion procedure is underway.
Posted today at 11:46 a.m.
Travelers settled in the La Bourdonnette parking lot last Friday.
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- About twenty caravans of travelers illegally occupy the Lausanne car park of La Bourdonnette.
- The group comes from the view-of-alpes (ne) where already fifty other caravans stay.
- The occupants refuse the evacuation order issued for Sunday at noon.
- The situation recalls the massive occupation of 450 people in March 2023.
«French travel people arrived on Friday. There are about twenty caravans in all, divided into two groups ”. Laurent CORCHOD, the coordinating delegate and Vaudish mediator for Travelers, thus confirms a second illegal land occupation in Lausanne, which this time concerns the parking p+r of The Bourdonnetteafter that of the branch Also in Lausanne.
This new convoy has visibly arrived from the view-of-Alpes, in the canton of Neuchâtel, where other travel people are installed with around fifty caravans. It was this same group that had been stopped on the highwayBetween Vaud and Valais, on April 18. “Some do not like each other there. They try to go elsewhere, to find other solutions, but in Lausanne and in the rest of the canton of Vaud, there is none, ”recalls Laurent Carchod.
Domicile
Travelers who settled in La Bourdonnette were ordered to leave the premises last Sunday at noon. Monday morning, they were still there. A procedure is therefore launched for violation of domicile.
We remember that in March 2023, nearly 450 people distributed in a hundred caravans had settled in the parking lot of La Bourdonnette. They finally left for it until the following September.
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Laurent Antonoff is a journalist at the Vaud section since 1990. After having covered the Northern Vaud regions and the Riviera, he joined the Lausanne editorial staff at the turn of the millennium. A novelist in his spare time, he was a winner of the Local Journalism Prize at Berner Zeitung in 1998.More info
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