The meals of these isolated homeless minors, most of them from sub-Saharan Africa, are provided by associations.
Since last Tuesday, more than 200 young migrants, homeless unaccompanied minors mostly from sub-Saharan Africa, occupy the Gaîté lyrique. They were even more than 300 this weekend, reports The Parisian.
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Their meals are provided by associations and the three toilets of the legendary performance hall located in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris are used constantly by the 300 young people and a few mothers who come to wash at the sink in turn.
Migrants are asking for shelter from the City of Paris and the State. “La Gaîté Lyrique is not suitable for living there, but we needed to get warmand we won't leave there without a real and sustainable hosting solution. We are minors, we have the right to it”declares one of the leaders of the group of migrants in the columns of the Ile-de-France daily.
“The shortfall is such that we are heading straight towards filing for bankruptcy”
If the management of the establishment understands the demands of these migrants, the performance hall still had to cancel half of your schedule and fears, in the long term, having to go out of business. “The shortfall is such that we are heading straight towards filing for bankruptcy.”deplores the director, Juliette Donadieu, who fears not being able to maintain the jobs of the 60 employees.
The prefecture of the Île-de-France region has been alerted. The City of Paris, for its part, believes that it has contributed sufficiently to accommodate the migrants by having made gymnasiums available in the capital.
Léa Filoche, deputy in charge of solidarity, emergency accommodation and refugee protection at the City of Paris, denounces the silence of the State at the microphone of France Blue Paris : “We have too few responses from the State, we are left very alone with people on the streets. We are ready to do our part, to provide the necessary means, but we cannot do it alone as a community.”
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