Square Daviais camp and former lycée occupation
Square Daviais, central Nantes (Île de Nantes / Médiathèque area) · Ouest / Sud-Ouest
According to InfoMigrants and France Bleu (September 2018), a large camp of migrants -- many of them asylum seekers, mainly from Sudan and Eritrea -- occupied Square Daviais in central Nantes for over a month; reporting cited several hundred people (figures ranged up to roughly 450-700), and after evacuation a group occupied a former lycée nearby. The City of Nantes sheltered hundreds in municipal gymnasiums.
Timeline
Evacuation of the Square Daviais camp
According to Europe 1 and InfoMigrants (July 2018), around 450 migrants, many from Sudan and Eritrea, were evacuated from the camp at Square Daviais in central Nantes on 23 July 2018; only the most vulnerable were offered shelter, and support groups moved roughly 250-300 others into a vacant former lycée.
InfoMigrants →Eviction from the former Lycée Leloup-Bouhier
According to France 3 Pays de la Loire (2 August 2018), police evacuated the city-owned former Lycée Leloup-Bouhier, occupied by more than 200 migrants, on the morning of 2 August following an eviction order issued by the judge on 29 July; many evacuees returned to Square Daviais.
France 3 Pays de la Loire →City announces sheltering of 560 people
According to France Bleu (19 September 2018), at a hearing before the Nantes administrative court the city announced it could shelter most of the 560 people then camped at Square Daviais, of whom associations said 81.1% were asylum seekers, providing accommodation, sanitary facilities and meals within 48 hours.
France Bleu →
Source
InfoMigrants (2018-09) · 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.