The associations denounce, in a document published Tuesday, the multiplication of dismantlements without notice. According to them, the Ministry of the Interior undermines the efforts of the ministers of housing and health.
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Many charitable associations denounce more and more challenging and brutal dismantlements of squats, slums and camps throughout France. According to a report by the observatory of the expulsions of the informal life places – animated by eight associations, including the Foundation Abbé Pierre, the doctors of the world, the National Federation of Associations Solidarities of Action with Gypsies and Travelers or the Collective ROMEUROPE -, published Tuesday, November 16, 1,350 of these informal places have been dismantled by the police, from 1 November 2020 to 31 October 2021, with, most of the time, destruction of shelters, cabins and personal effects.
The observatory calculated that 472 people, on average, had been put on the street, every day, for a year, stating that one person could have suffered this spell several times in the period. Dismantling in the cities of Calaisis and Grande-Synthe (North), place of concentration of applicants to migration to the United Kingdom, represent, on its own, 963 of these expulsions, 77% of the total, certain camps Having been emptied from their occupants hundreds of times. Last dismantling, that of a Grande Synthe camp, Tuesday, November 16, announced by Gérald Darmanin on Twitter. The Gironde, then, total 95 operations and the Ile-de-France, 86.
The number of these expulsions is up sharply, by 30% compared to the 2019-2020 fiscal year. Excluding Calaisis, the rise is even more spectacular, from 181, in 2018-2019 to 306 in 2020-2021, + 70% (the 122 police operations of 2019-2020, because of rehearsal confines, not significant). Their pace has accelerated from May 31, when ended the exceptionally long winter truce.
Zele of some prefects
The proliferation of the camps is not in question, since the State rethinated 439 in October 2021, with 22,189 people, a stable figure. But, according to the observatory, it is the zeal of certain prefects, despite, often, of the insertion and integration actions engaged in the field by the associations yet mandated by the State, which is at the Origin of this police overactivity.
A Montpellier, for example, the Prefect recently named Hugues Moutouh A, August 31, makes one of the biggest camps in the city during a “Zero Bidonville territory” strategy had been put implemented by social workers, the municipality and the services of the State. “The state is schizophrenic, Judge Florian Huygue, in charge of precarious habitat at the Abbé Pierre Foundation. He deploys a lot of effort and money to carry out accommodation, schooling, care or employment actions. , and the ruins at once expelled without notice. “
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