France, the first European country to issue obligations to leave French territory, locked up 42,353 people in an irregular situation pending their expulsion in 2021.
Le Monde
Foreigners in an irregular situation suffered a “abuse”, “disproportionate” and “indiscriminate” in the administrative detention centers (CRA) French in 2021, denounced Thursday, March 17 in their Annual report the associations that help. “Many people have been placed in the administrative detention center in 2021 without the indispensable discernment that must necessarily intervene before deciding a deprivation of liberty”, write the five associations that intervene within the CRA.
These associations, including the Cimade or France land of asylum, also made the “observation of a confinement too often abusive and disproportionate”. In 2021, France, the first European country for the issuance of eviction measures (OQTF, obligation to leave the French territory), locked up 42,353 people in an irregular situation pending their deportation, of which 26,485 for the Only CRA of Mayotte.
The average duration of enlightenment has reached the twenty-two days in metropolitan France, up 32%. But the defenders of the migrants denounce the “uselessness” of these measures, in the context of closure of many borders in 2021 because of the pandemic, which has made the removal of many people in an irregular situation. This increase, they say, has not led to expel more people, affirmation presented without providing numbers to support it.
Creation of SAR-COV-2 contamination clusters
If 10,091 people have been the subject of a forced remoteness of the French territory, according to the statistics of the Ministry of the Interior, the latter has not made public the execution rate of the OQTF, a sensitive subject which struggles the government that the right and extreme right opposition regularly accuses laxity in this area.
This desire to “lock up at all costs” has also led to “the appearance of many clusters” of contamination at COVID-19 in these closed centers, denounced the associations, again without counting them. “Logic of confinement takes over the strict respect of barrier measures,” they commented.
Other reason for concern: the increase in the number of people placed in CRA immediately after their release from prison. They accounted for 23.54% of entrants in retention center. A “double penalty”, still deplored the associations.
Among these people, the report lists numerous convicts for “delicacling with remote subtraction”, after refusing to submit to the detection tests of SARS-COV-2 necessary for their expulsion.