Families of Iraqi Kurds have become the first to arrive in France’s new camp of wooden shelters built for £2.4million.
The new
residents were photographed tramping through mud as they made their way
to the camp from another site nearby where 1,000 people have been living
in miserable conditions.
Built by
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in opposition to the French government,
the 200 heated wooden cabins also feature proper toilets and showers.
About 150
people abandoned the camp in Grande-Synthe, near Dunkirk, to move Monday
to wooden sheds with access to toilets and electricity built nearby by
Doctors Without Borders, spokesman Samuel Hanryon said.
Families
pushed luggage and piled bags on buses taking them across town to the
new site. The aid group, known by its French acronym MSF, hopes hundreds
more will join them in the coming days.
The move is
part of efforts to improve conditions for thousands of migrants who have
converged on northern France amid Europe’s migrant crisis.
A few police guarded the area but did not take part in Monday’s move.
In Calais, authorities are gradually evicting residents of part of the ‘jungle’ camp and trying to get them to seek asylum in France or move to cleaner container facilities. A few Calais migrants came to the new MSF site Monday, Hanryon said.
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