Paris opens new-style reception centre to help solve migrants crisis

A meal card is pictured at the reception center for migrants and refugees near porte de La Chapelle in the north of Paris, France, November 25, 2016. REUTERS/Jacky Naegelen

PARIS (Reuters) - Osman, a 19-year-old asylum-seeker from Sudan, had been on the migrant route for almost a year, travelling through Libya, Italy, and France before making it to a brand new centre that opened last month in the north of Paris.

Had he arrived a few weeks earlier, he might have ended up in a squalid camp, like the dozens that have sprung up in the city in the past.