Facing the squalid conditions of the Basroch camp and the refusal of the french government to finance better accommodations MSF (Doctors Without Borders) constructed in 6 weeks a new camp in La Linière, 3 Km away.

Until late the day before the relocation of the refugees people were working hard to complete the facility 

On March 7th 2016, Doctors Without Borders and the municipality of Grande-Synthe started moving the 1300 inhabitants of Basrroch camp to the new camp La Liniere, 

It had snowed during the night and bitter cold

Refugees of Basroch camp transported their belongings to the gathering point

Even the Justin Bieber poster hanging for months outside a tent was taken along to the Liniere refugees camp in Grande-Synthe

Local buses were chartered to transport the refugees to the new camp.

Damien Carême, Mayor of Grande-Synthe, gave an interview to a British TV station during the move of the Basroch refugees camp to Liniere

At the entrance of La Linière, refugees searched for their belongings among dozens of similar looking blue-yellow bags. That's where I met D., an Iraki Kurd and became friends. Eventually he reached UK.  

The morning after the move in Liniere