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Activists help migrants to pack their belongings in a makeshift camp, April 23, 2024 in Paris
FRENCH police evicted refugees from a makeshift camp in Paris before dawn today, in what migrant rights groups say is a “social cleansing” campaign to spruce up the capital for this summer’s Olympic Games.
About 30 teenage boys and young men, reportedly from west Africa, were woken before sunrise and ordered to pack their bags and tents before being moved.
“I was already scared but I am even more scared because I don’t know where to go,” 16-year-old Boubacar Traore, who fled conflict in Burkina Faso, said.
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