A Paris court has overturned a police order that banned charities from distributing meals to migrants and homeless people in the north of the French capital. The police prefect had argued that the handouts draw homeless people to the area, threatening public order, but associations say banning food aid does not address the root of the problem.
On Tuesday, the Paris administrative court sided with several associations that had called for the cancellation of the 10 October order from the Paris police prefect that prohibited food distribution in the north of Paris for a month.
