Migrant Families Seek Shelter at Paris City Hall Plaza Amid Holiday Festivities

Concerns Rise Over Potential Displacement Ahead of 2024 Olympics

• About 50 migrant families, with children aged between three months and 10 years, gathered at the City Hall plaza in Paris on Christmas evening seeking shelter.
• Aid groups distributed food, blankets, and diapers and helped find temporary lodging for these families.
• Many of the families are from French-speaking African countries, including Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, and Senegal.
• Migrant aid group Utopia 56 manages to find space for about 20-40% of those in need every evening.
• There are concerns that Paris authorities will clear out migrants and others sleeping in the rough before next year’s Olympics without providing longer-term housing options.

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