Undocumented workers speak out over ‘exploitation’ at Paris Olympics venues
Gaye Sarambounou is used to toiling long days for a pittance. He's a Malian living in France with no working papers, but it's a situation that occurs around the world.
Gaye Sarambounou is used to toiling long days for a pittance. He's a Malian living in France with no working papers, but it's a situation that occurs around the world.
Migrants who just arrived in Paris often lack access to vital information, according to a new survey. The causes: precarious living conditions, the language barrier and illiteracy.
Judicial authorities in France charged a suspected gunman on Monday with last week's murder of three Kurds in the French capital. Hundreds of people marched in Paris to pay tribute to the victims. The Turkish foreign ministry on Monday summoned France's ambassador over "anti-Turkey propaganda".
The suspect in a Paris shooting that left three Kurds dead told prosecutors he set out to kill foreigners. The 69-year-old man was admitted into a psychiatric ward.
Security forces in Paris have once again cleared a migrant camp and moved nearly 1,000 people into emergency shelters, Paris police said Thursday. According to police, more than a dozen evacuations have been carried out in the French capital so far this year.
An Iranian whose irregular immigration status obliged him to spend nearly two decades in a Paris airport, inspiring a Steven Spielberg movie starring Tom Hanks, died on Saturday at the terminal.
Nearly 200 unaccompanied migrant minors sleep in a makeshift tent camp set up under a bridge in a suburb of Paris. In the absence of support from the French government, NGOs like Utopia 56 provide help these young foreigners, who are considered adults, so they don't have to fend for themselves in the streets of Paris.
French police evacuated a camp of about 354 migrants on the outskirts of Paris on Wednesday. The authorities said this was the 15th such operation since the beginning of 2022.
In the regions of Paris and Calais, several associations organize free outings, cultural and sporting activities and workshops of all types for migrants. InfoMigrants provides you with a (non-exhaustive) list.
As of July, France Terre d’Asile will be in charge of evaluating the age of unaccompanied migrant minors in Paris. The association is taking over the role from the Red Cross, which has managed the evaluation system for six years.
Hundreds of people have been evicted from migrant tent camps in the past 24 hours in what Paris authorities call "sheltering operations." At least two children were among a group forced out of their tents in the latest clearance, activists say.
France is taking its share of Ukrainian refugees with locals in Paris stepping up to help as the refugee crisis escalates. FRANCE 24 met some of those fleeing the war and the Parisians who are helping them navigate the French system at the only "Welcome Ukraine" centre in the French capital.