Will Paris's swanky 16th arrondissement soon be home to a migrant camp?

TheLocal.fr ^ | 27 April 2018 15:34 CEST+02:00 | Alex Dunham

[Olog-hai]

A proposal to set up a welcome center for newly arrived migrants in Paris’s iconic Bois de Boulogne park has been met with mixed reactions by residents of the upmarket neighborhood.

Elected representatives of French communist parties PCF and the Left Front proposed on Thursday that the matter be discussed at the Paris Council, a month after the closure of the city’s oversaturated Porte de la Chapelle migrant center.

They’re suggesting the 1,500 evacuated migrants, who are currently being housed in a makeshift camp at Porte de la Villette, be soon rehoused in a much more central and desirable part of the city: Bois de Boulogne park in the 16^th arrondissement.

The group has admitted the proposal is a political move aimed at rebalancing the discrepancy in welcome centers between East and West Paris, but they also argue their request is a practical one. “There’s an unused reception area at the Bois de Boulogne Park; it could be transformed into a camp without any hassle,” PCF-Left Front advisor Jean-Noël Aqua told TV news channel BFMTV, adding that there was already running water and electricity. “We want this park to host a migrant center as soon as possible. (The west of Paris) must also contribute to the effort of welcoming migrants to the city.”

That’s not a view shared by all residents in the 16^th arrondissement, however. “We already have prostitutes; we can’t walk in the park after 6 pm,” an unnamed resident told BFMTV. “If they bring in migrants, where are we going to walk in Paris? As someone who’s lived here for years, I refuse for this to happen.” …

[pinkandgreenmom]

I’m glad my parents took me to visit Europe in the late 80s/early 90s. No way would I want to go today.

And not for nothing, but Catholic and Lutheran Charities are doing in my area of FL what the Communist groups in Paris are doing - bringing in migrants by the dozens/hundreds.

[Red Badger]

ar·ron·disse·ment əˈrändismənt,äˈräNdēsˌmäN/ noun noun: arrondissement; plural noun: arrondissements a subdivision of a department in France, for purposes of local government administration. an administrative district of certain large French cities, in particular Paris. Origin French, from arrondir ‘make round.’

[dfwgator]

I would pass a law stating that politicians must take migrants into their homes before anyone else.

[Army Air Corps]

Title the legislation the “You First Act.”

[avenir]

😂😂😂

[SMARTY]

The French peed in their own soup! :)

[353FMG]

Americans are doing likewise but will not admit it.