Some 200 homeless migrant youth They have peacefully occupied an abandoned school in Paris, owned by the municipality, where they have sought shelter with the support of humanitarian organizations that are demanding reception measures for them.

The installation in the building, located in the 16th district of the French capital, it occurred at night and passed without incidentas confirmed this Wednesday by Utopia 56, one of the NGOs that support migrants without resources, refugees and asylum seekers in France.

“Hundreds of isolated foreign teenagers they wander the streets of Paris, facing cold, hunger, police harassment and the destruction of their material goods”, denounces the organization, which regrets in a statement that it is “impossible” for the associations “to gather these young people in the same place, since as soon as they settle, they are immediately evicted by the Police” .

Faced with such policies -which the Police justify for reasons of public health and safety- and in the absence of a “space for exchange” between the NGOs and the Government, “associations, supporters and young people” have taken advantage of “the opportunity” to take “a vacant place”owned by the City of Paris, for “demonstrate” in demand for refuge and support.

“To definitively put an end to these dangerous and counterproductive exclusion policies“, says Utopia 56, the promoters of this action demand that “the principle of presumption of minority age” be respected, which guarantees the protection of unaccompanied minors by the State.