"It's Humiliating": Hundreds of Asylum Seekers Trapped Under Metro Line in Scorching Heat!

By Times Now World

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An intense summer heatwave has exacerbated the dire humanitarian conditions for hundreds of refugees and asylum seekers encamped beneath the elevated tracks of Metro Line 2 near Stalingrad station in Paris. With local temperatures climbing to nearly 37 degrees Celsius—and microclimate temperatures under the concrete viaducts reported as high as 42 degrees Celsius—approximately 850 displaced persons, primarily fleeing conflicts in Sudan, Afghanistan, and Eritrea, are facing severe shortages of potable water, medical aid, and adequate shelter. Non-governmental organizations, including Médecins du Monde, report that while nearly 60 percent of the camp's residents are actively registered asylum seekers and another 20 percent hold official refugee status, the chronic lack of state-provided municipal housing has left them stranded on public pavements. Local municipal cleaning crews have been deployed to hose down the occupied streets alongside a heightened police presence, while volunteers w

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