(Radio France) The French government will “systematically” offer accommodation to migrants at the Calais migrant centre after three activists staged a collective hunger strike for 23 days.
“We will systematically offer accommodation, which will be mainly in Pas-de-Calais, in Hauts-de-France, but not in Calais,” said Didier Leschi, head of the French Office of Immigration and Integration (Ofii).
Speaking to French newswire AFP, he said that the offer would be presented on Tuesday to local organizations via a government mediator.
This after discussions last week ended in an impasse.
He did add that evacuations of the Calais camps, which are ongoing, did not always include proposals to shelter migrants, even though that is the rule.
