This structure will temporarily welcome 300 migrants at night, before redirecting them to Perennial accommodation, the government mediator has announced on Wednesday.
Le Monde with AFP
The state will create a “safe” “SAS” to temporarily welcome 300 migrants at night, before redirecting them to Perennial accommodation, announced on Wednesday, November 3rd the government mediator. Since October 27 by the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, to negotiate with three association activists on hunger strike, who protest against the dismantments of migrant camps.
This “night hosting SAS will be open every day after evacuations,” said the Director General of the French Office for Immigration and Integration (OFII), Didier Leschi. The people who will go there every night “will focus on perennial accommodation outside Calais” the next morning, he said. In an interview in the world, he had acknowledged that “the action of hunger strikers revealed an inconsistency in the policy implemented”.
This structure must make it possible to keep the promises already put forward by the State, which is committed on Tuesday to offer “systematically” accommodation to the dislodged migrants of their fortune camps in Calais, which involves increasing the park of hosting of “several hundred places”, mainly in the Pas-de-Calais and the Hauts-de-France, according to Mr. Leschi.
Hunger strike
The mediator’s proposals are always considered insufficient by the three people – a Jesuit priest, Philippe Demeestère, and two associative activists – who have been afraid of hunger strike for twenty-four days to denounce the treatment of migrants in Calais. The police evacuate almost daily migrants grouped in the hope of crossing the Channel to reach the United Kingdom.
Local associations, which denounce the situation of some 1,500 migrants currently present in Calais, continue to claim a “moratorium” of evacuation and slammed the door of the discussions on Tuesday afternoon.
Wednesday, the Human Rights Observers (HRO) intensociative network qualified in a statement the shelves of “forced displacements of people far from the border to accommodation in which we know of experience that people will not stay not “. “By preventing people twenty-four hours before each expulsion, the state proposal is to force them to expubise themselves!”, Insist these associations.
They ask “the end of daily harassment, and therefore the end of the evictions” during the winter truce, “essential condition for allowing people to think about their project”, “they say.
Fear of a call of air
In the face, the state fears that a stop of evacuation causes an air call that would allow the replenishment of the “jungle”, this gigantic encampment dismantled in 2016 which brought up to 10,000 migrants under conditions inhuman and chaotic.
According to Mr. Leschi, “40,000 people” arrived on the North coast since the beginning of the year, with the hope of winning the English coast. Tuesday, 292 migrants were rescued in the handle and renewed on the French coast.
Since the end of 2018, the illegal crossings of the Manche by migrants seeking to gain the United Kingdom multiply despite the repeated warnings of the authorities, which remind the danger related to the density of traffic, with strong currents. and at the low temperature of the water.