Overview

• About 200 migrants and homeless individuals were cleared from the Hôtel de Ville forecourt in the early hours of August 12 in a calm police operation supported by city welfare services
• Authorities mobilized buses to transfer consenting families to temporary reception centers in Marseille, Rennes, Toulouse, Orléans, Bourges, Besançon and Strasbourg, but many Paris-based households declined to depart
• The city of Paris identified 34 vulnerable individuals—mainly pregnant women and single parents with infants—and housed them in municipal gymnasiums
• A criminal inquiry was opened after two individuals allegedly urinated on a pregnant woman and her children during the night of August 9–10
• NGOs Utopia 56 and France terre d’asile assisted occupants during the evacuation and criticized the relocations for severing schooling, medical and administrative continuity, urging permanent local housing solutions