There are also many videos on social media showing the impossible situation in Paris with migrants camped in the middle of the streets with their luggage, often in front of shops and restaurants. Interestingly, the footage does not really show locals walking among them, sometimes occupying whole sections of pavement.
Cover image: Illegal immigrants warming themselves by a fire as they prepare to evacuate their camp on the A1 motorway in Saint-Denis, a northern suburb of Paris, on 17 November 2020 (Photo: MTI/EPA/Yoan Valat)
