In Dunkirk, Paris, Bordeaux or Montpellier, protesters worried about “the rise of extreme right ideas”. In Paris, the authorities counted 2,300 protesters, according to a police source.
Le Monde with AFP
“Freedom, equality, papers”, “Our country is called solidarity”. In Dunkerque, Paris, Bordeaux or Montpellier, protesters “anti-racists” claimed on Saturday, December 18, the regularization of undocumented immigrants. Through France, the protesters worried about “the rise of extreme right ideas”.
“Wherever one comes, wherever one is born, our country is called Solidarity,” had the header of the procession in Paris, where the authorities counted 2,300 protesters, according to one police source. Many sang “air, air, open the borders”.
“I am here to support the undocumented migrants who all work in unbearable conditions,” responded to the France-Presse Agency (AFP) Véronique Hollebecque, inhabitant from the 61-year-old Parisian region, saying “in Total support with them “. “We are made to believe that we are invaded when they are there to work, contribute to economic activity. No reason that they are abused and do not benefit from rights,” she added, to a few months of the presidential election.
In the procession, Cissé Lassana explained to work in a hotel, at night, near the Eiffel Tower: “I have been working here for seven years, it’s a lot, I would like to have papers because I have it right “, testified this Malian national, a member of the Rights Association in front !!
Dozens of organizations, associations and trade unions – including the Federation of Solidarity Associations with all immigrants (Fasti) and the South Syndicat – had called to demonstrate as part of an “anti-racist and solidarity” campaign which intends to Wear an “alternative to the extreme right”.
For Denis Godard, a manager of the solidarity march that had been grafted to the call to demonstrate, “the situation of the Empire undocumented but it is the whole political climate that revolves around the proposals [of the polemicist extreme right Eric] Zemmour “. “We want to show that an alternative exists and that the start must come from civil society,” he explained before the manifestation.
How many drowned before finding solidarity?
Calls to demonstrate concerned dozens of cities across the country. In Bordeaux, about 200 people gathered against the Grand Theater, under the slogan “Migrations: misconceptions kill!”.
On placards, we could read “zero immigration, zero degree of humanity” or “how many drowned before finding solidarity?”, with reference to the murderer shipwrecks in the Mediterranean or the Channel. “We fight in particular the idea received that the migrant is always a man, black and poor,” said Bordeaux Karine Trissac, teacher and member of the collective “Education Without Borders”, evoking the “important” number of women and graduates. Among the migrants.
A Montpellier, a hundred people have shown calmly. “Freedom, Equality, Paper”, Clames the main band. “The regularization of undocumented migrants is completely relevant, in the period that one lives, with the rise of extreme right ideas, which are on hate speeches,” said Christian Payard, President of the League MONTPELLIER HOME DIGITS.
The protesters were 150 in Dunkirk according to the organizing associations, 120 in Aix-en-Provence according to the prefecture, about 110 in Avignon, as well as a few dozen in Lille. “There is no room for everyone in emergency accommodation. Winter begins and many people are homeless in the streets of Dunkirk and the camps in Grande-Synth,” said Marie Chappelle Coordinator of the Utopia56 Migrant Assistance Association in Grande-Synthe (North, Hauts-de-France), which lists several fortune camps. The association requires the end of the daily dismantlements of the camps and confiscations of the tents by the authorities.