🇫🇷 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.