In an emergency remedy Tuesday, November 16, the association all migrants wants to compel the state to put the exiles at the shelter.
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This is the first time that the state is attacked before justice in Briançon. Tuesday, November 16, at the end of the day, the association all migrants, who intervenes in the Hautes-Alpes on the Franco-Italian border, seized the administrative tribunal of Marseilles according to the urgent procedure of the reference-freedom, in order to constrain The public authorities to implement a welcome and emergency accommodation of migrants arrived in the territory.
Since the summer of 2017, to avoid police checks in the Alpes-Maritimes, a perilous migration road has emerged through the snow-covers of the Alps, from Italy. Migrants generally pass a few days in Briançon before taking a bus or train to continue their exile to Western Europe.
Since October 24, the associative refuge The solidarity terraces, which offered them a cottage, has closed, faced with arrivals that surpass its capacity capacities, capped at 80 people. The night before closing, 230 people were on site.
Since, a fluctuating number of migrants transites each day by the city of Briançon, “between ten and thirty” gauge Philippe Wyon, of the association Solidarity Refuges, which puts this rather weak number on the account of strengthening police controls At the Col de Montgenere. The majority are from Afghanistan and among them are often families. “They do not want to stay but continue their way to ask for asylum in Germany or Great Britain”, highlights Max Duez, solidarity shelters.
an inflatable tent
While the associations demand a state action to reopen their refuge, the prefect of the Hautes-Alpes, Martine Clavel, in a letter of 5 November addressed to solidarity shelters, is satisfied with a “controlled management of the flow “thanks to” reinforced controls “to” hinder illegal passages “. And warns: “No home device will be initiated by us.”
While temperatures are negative at night, about thirty migrants spent Tuesday 16 at Wednesday 17 November in Briançon. If some could be hosted by volunteer, others are found on the street. To deal with this situation, doctors without borders (MSF) installed on Saturday, November 13 an inflatable tent of a hundred square meters in the Garden of the St. Catherine Church of Briançon. Equipment heated at diesel, which it generally reserves to humanitarian crises abroad. “It’s a tent that we used after the earthquake in Haiti in 2010 or after the earthquake in Nepal in 2015. This is the first time that it is used to house people in France,” says Julien Delozanne, Project Coordinator for MSF.
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