Overview
- The prefecture ordered a police evacuation that began on Thursday, August 13, clearing the parvis of the Samu social de Paris after about 50 days of occupation.
- Reports say roughly 300 to 450 people had camped on the site, including about 150 children and some pregnant women.
- Authorities offered transfers to regional SAS reception centres and a small number of places in Île-de-France, and roughly one hundred people accepted the solutions put forward.
- The occupation began in mid-July when striking Samu social staff joined homeless people to demand higher pay, more emergency housing and strict respect for the DALO continuity-of-reception principle.
- Unions and aid groups condemned the eviction as leaving families and unaccompanied minors exposed and warned the underlying shortfall in local emergency beds and funding will likely produce repeated health and homelessness crises unless authorities increase local, suitable housing and staffing.