Since this summer, between 100 and 150 people spend the Franco-Italian border every day with the goal of going asylum, most often in England or Germany.
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Using inaugurated, soon closed. Since Sunday, October 24, the associative hut in Briançon (Hautes-Alpes), at the Franco-Italian border, to offer a few days of respite to migrants on their migratory path across Europe, has closed in the face of an influx of people too important, mostly Afghans.
The site of the solidarity terraces, opened this summer, is animated by several associations like doctors in the world, solidarity shelters or all migrants and financed by structures such as the Riace Fund, the Foundation of France or Emmaus France. “We can accommodate 80 people with dignity and safely but since the end of August, migration pressure is increasingly important, reports Max Duez, the association Refuges Solidaire. There is never less than 150 people every night and it is not very good. It has been decided to put the state in front of its responsibilities. “
Following the closure of the place, decided after its official inauguration, 200 to 300 people converged to the station to leave the city. “The vast majority are Afghans, continues Max Duez. They are young men but there are also families. They are trying to join Germany or England. They have left their country for one or two years in general and have transited by Iran and Turkey. “
Looking forward to a train for Paris, people spent the night from Sunday to Monday in the train station, before being hosted the next night in the church of Sainte-Catherine, on the initiative of The bishop of Gap and Embrun, M Gr Xavier Malle, particularly difficult to perform PCR tests for traveling.
“We arrive at our limits”
Tuesday, the Prefecture of the Hautes-Alpes also chartered two buses to allow a hundred people to join Lyon and Valencia. “We intend to reopen but it’s endless, warns Max Duez. We arrive at our limits.” If the associations ask the State to put ways, the Mayor the Republicans of Briançon, Arnaud Murgia, claims, He, “sustainable reinforcements at the border”. “The Minister of the Interior has sent two Mobile Gendarmerie squadrons Monday,” he argues. And to insist: “We can not manage 150 passages a day. It takes cooperation with the Italians and it takes a framework. If people arrive in Europe by Greece or Italy, they must apply to asylum in these countries. “
By saying that, the elected representative remained the Dublin rules, which provides that the country of entry into Europe is the responsible for the examination of the asylum application. A system widely circumvented for years, both because of the burden it poses to the entry states and taking into account the trajectories of migrants who wish to reach the countries of which they speak the language, where they have relatives. , contacts or job opportunities.
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