仏当局、パリ郊外の廃ビルから移民数百人退去 五輪まで１００日

【パリＡＦＰ＝時事】パリ五輪開幕まで１００日となった１７日、フランス当局はパリ南郊ビトリシュルセーヌで廃ビルを不法占拠していた移民数百人を退去させ、国内の他の地域へ向かうバスに乗るよう促した（写真は、仏パリ南郊の廃ビルから退去させられ、受け入れセンターへ向かうバスに乗る移民）
　人道支援団体は、当局が７月２６日～８月１１日に開催されるパリ五輪に際し、首都美化の一環としてホームレスの人々を排除しようとしていると非難している。
　ビトリシュルセーヌの廃ビルには、最も多い時には４５０人の移民が寝起きしていた。彼らを支援しに訪れていたＮＧＯによると、大半は在留資格を持ち、公営住宅への入居を待っている状態だったため、当局が今週立ち退きを発表しても自主的に出て行ったのは一部にとどまった。
　残る３００人ほどは１７日朝、暴徒鎮圧用装備の警官隊に監視される中、かばんや台車に所有物を詰め込み、不安そうな面持ちで静かにビルを出た。クリアファイルに入った必要書類を手に一人ずつ、入国管理局職員が座るテーブルに近づき、つたないフランス語や英語で自身が置かれた状況を説明していた。大半は若い男性だったが、子ども連れの女性も数人いた。
　ビルの外には中部オルレアンや南西部ボルドーに向かうバスが待機していたが、移民の多くはパリ首都圏を離れたくないと語った。
　スーダン出身のアバカールさん（２９）は物流業界でキャリアを積むためにパリに来たと言い、スーパーマーケットへの就職を約束されていると述べた。
　移民やホームレスの支援団体は当局の狙いについて、五輪のための観光客がやって来る前に、パリとその近郊からホームレスを排除することだと非難している。
　人道支援団体「世界の医療団」のポール・アラウジー氏は「パリ近郊の保護施設には空きがあるにもかかわらず、首都から遠ざけたがっているのは明らかだ。特に五輪の前だからだ」と指摘した。
　パリからの移民の移送をめぐっては、地方部や小さな町の首長の一部が反発を強めている。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2024/04/18-19:07）

French authorities on Wednesday evicted hundreds of migrants from a squat in a southern suburb of Paris with just 100 days to go until the Olympics, encouraging them to board buses to other parts of France.
Charities have accused the authorities of seeking to clear homeless people from the French capital to make it look better for the Games from July 26 to August 11.
The abandoned office building in Vitry-sur-Seine had been home to up to 450 migrants, most of them documented but awaiting social housing, according to non-governmental organisations who visited to help them.
Several had left the building earlier in the week after authorities announced the upcoming eviction.
Clutching their belongings in bags, suitcases or trolleys, some 300 people who had remained left calmly on Wednesday morning under the eye of police in riot gear, looking worried about their next step.
Most were young men, but several women with children were also among the crowd.
One by one, holding documents in plastic folders, they approached immigration officials sitting behind tables to explain their situation in broken French or stilted English.
Buses waited outside, ready to take them to the central city of Orleans or the southwestern city of Bordeaux.
But many people said they did not want to leave the Paris region.
I want to stay here, said Abakar, a 29-year-old from Sudan who did not give his second name.
He said he was in Paris to follow a logistics course and had been promised a job in a supermarket.
- 'Bordeaux is nice' -
At one table, a woman official tried to convince another young man to try his luck in Bordeaux.
You know in France, there isn't just Paris. Bordeaux is nice, it's warmer than here, she said.
But he too was attending training in the capital region, and so she directed him to another table where a colleague was in charge of accommodation near Paris.
Merci Daniel, a mother from Sudan, said she had sent her children to stay in a nearby shelter because there was too much violence inside the squat.
But she did not want to leave the area as she was scared she would no longer see them if she did.
An official found her a room at a hotel outside Paris for several days.
Migrant and homeless charities have accused the authorities of seeking to remove the homeless from Paris and its outskirts before tourists arrive for the Olympics.
There are spaces in shelters near Paris, but clearly they want to move them away from the capital. Especially before the Olympics, said Paul Alauzy, a representative from medical charity Medecins du Monde (Doctors of the World).
Some mayors in rural and small-town France have also become increasingly angry over the transfer of migrants from the capital to their communities.