HRW denounced the fact that hundreds of migrant children are sleeping in the streets of Paris | NTN24

Human Rights Watch reports that hundreds of unaccompanied migrant children sleep in the streets of Paris and criticize the French authorities for not taking care of them as required by law.

In a report released on Wednesday, the NGO failed the state for the "arbitrary" way in which it acts to determine if a youth is under 18 years of age, when he / she is not a child. no papers.

"In Paris, child protection authorities use flawed procedures to badess the age of migrant children traveling alone, thus excluding much of the care" to which they are entitled ", adds the report.

For the authorities to take care of them, the minors arriving in the French capital must undergo a device managed by the Red Cross, which will determine their age. [19659003] However, according to HRW, due to "arbitrary practices", some may be wrongly like adults "on the basis of their" physical appearance, "added the text quoted by the AFP news agency.