MOSCOW, July 26 More than 300 homeless people who protested outside the city hall in the 18th arrondissement of Paris since Tuesday against their expulsion from the city during the Olympics have been sent to temporary accommodation centers, the Parisien newspaper reported on Thursday, citing the prefecture of the capital region.
«Three hundred and thirty-nine people… were sent to temporary accommodation centers in the Ile-de-France region,» the report said.
The prefecture said that «everyone who was on the square in front of the city hall in the 18th arrondissement was offered housing.» Some women with children refused to go to the accommodation centers because their husbands had gone to work, Parisien reports. According to the organization Utopia 56, which helps refugees and illegal immigrants, there are still 120 people on the streets.
About 300 people, including small children, settled on the ground near the fence of the city hall on Tuesday on rugs, blankets and blankets in protest. They demanded housing after they were evicted from tent cities ahead of the Olympics.
In total, several thousand homeless people have been evicted from the capital region, and the French authorities have called on them to board buses and go to cities such as Lyon and Marseille. Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo said that the city would not have time to accommodate everyone living on the streets before the games.
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