Faced with the winter wave, Paris City Hall requires the Great Cold Plan to be triggered, the State responds that it’s “widely” mobilized | EUROtoday

The Paris City Hall referred to as on Friday, December 26, the State to set off “without waiting” the Severe Cold Plan, alerting individuals to the scenario “dramatic” a number of thousand homeless individuals. The Ile-de-France prefecture ensures that it’s mobilized to “intensify support” weak populations.

The Great Cold Plan has already been activated by a number of prefectures however not in Ile-de-France, which isn’t positioned on yellow vigilance “very cold”, based on the most recent Météo-France bulletin.

“In Paris, temperatures have been very cold for several days and are likely to last”however underlines in a press launch the City of Paris, which “solemnly asks the State to open the Great Cold Plan, and to take all necessary measures to shelter the most vulnerable people”.

The Severe Cold Plan permits for an extension of the opening hours of day facilities, a rise in patrols and the requisition of locations to open emergency lodging locations.

“There is an urgent need to act” in view of the “many alerts” from raids on the presence of homeless individuals “transfixed by the cold” over the previous few days, based on a press launch from Paris City Hall.

“Serious disengagement of the State”

Requested by Agence France-Presse (AFP), the Ile-de-France prefecture assured that it had “widely” mobilized from December 23, “in conjunction with operators and social monitoring stakeholders”, “to intensify support for the public in street situations”.

“When the conditions for activation of the Great Cold Plan are met in Paris, it will be immediately triggered by the prefect of the Ile-de-France region, prefect of Paris”she mentioned, with out giving additional particulars. “In total, nearly 16,900 places are opened by state services every night at the moment in Paris to accommodate the most vulnerable people on the street”underlined the prefecture of Ile-de-France.

“There are 210 new family members who called 115 yesterday who were able to be accommodated” Thursday night, continued the regional prefecture, including that “more than 20 marauders” had gone to assist the homeless on Friday. “The marauders have nowhere to shelter people, it’s dramatic”Léa Filoche, deputy to the socialist mayor Anne Hidalgo in control of solidarity, instructed AFP.

Of “many empty places” could possibly be requisitioned by the State like the previous navy hospital of Val-de-Grâce within the Latin Quarter, based on the elected official who denounces the “serious disengagement of the State for which the town hall replaces itself as best it can”. “In total, the City of Paris shelters more than 1,400 people whose care is the responsibility of the State”in six gymnasiums and eight municipal buildings (former colleges, nurseries or schools), she explains.

“The town hall will push the walls from this [vendredi] evening but it will only create a few dozen places, it is well below the needs”regretted Léa Filoche, stressing that greater than 3,500 individuals sleeping on the streets had been recorded over the last Solidarity Night originally of 2025.

At the start of December, the city corridor arrange its “Winter plan” which opens new lodging locations and will increase meals assist. For its half, the Ile-de-France area introduced on Friday that it was renewing its plan for the winter, which helps associations serving to the homeless to the tune of 1.25 million euros.