Justice
Paris's Ongoing Struggle to Shelter Migrants
Mayor Anne Hidalgo announced plans last May for a triage point to orient people more quickly into the French social system and eliminate informal encampments from city streets.
Younis Ahmed watched Wrestlemania on a television set up in a in a temporary refectory enclosed in plastic sheeting and heated.
This room, in a “welcome center” for arriving migrants in Paris, is a substantial step up from the streets where the 27-year-old from Sudan spent his first two weeks in the city.