🇫🇷 France · Large siteClosingapprox. location
GL Center, Porte de la Villette, Paris
Paris · National
According to InfoMigrants and Le JDD (2025), the GL Center at Porte de la Villette in northern Paris, opened in 2022 for Ukrainians fleeing the war and later housing migrants of other nationalities, was ordered closed by the Île-de-France prefecture (announced 29 April), cutting more than 400 emergency places. Utopia 56 filed a legal appeal against the closure.
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InfoMigrants (2025) · news
Part of France’s Dispositif National d’Accueil (OFII). Figures are described neutrally from the cited source; coordinates marked “approx.” are town/street-level estimates.