The entirety of people, mostly Kurdish, were evacuated, Wednesday.
Le Monde with AFP
New dismantling on the North coast. The police forces destroyed, Wednesday, October 13, a camp where lived several hundred people, located in a field in Grande-Synthe, in the Hauts-de-France, have we learned from the associations and The prefecture of the North, confirming information from the North voice. This dismantling, “with the assistance of the public force”, was decided in application “of the decision of the judicial court of Dunkerque ordering the expulsion of the occupants without a right or title”, explained the prefecture. According to her, 118 people were “sheltered”.
“The entirety of people were evacuated, more than a thousand people” and most of them “are still in Grande-Synthe, on an old camp” about 300 meters away, affirmed Marie Chapelle , Coordinator of the Utopia Migrant Association 56. According to it, the field where these migrants were installed, mostly Kurdish, is “plowed to prevent them from resettling”.
“It’s outrageous, it’s harassment. It’s trying to exhaust people without proposing adapted solutions.”
“What is it for?”
“We can not understand. Why pick up and push them off next? What is it? At a time, at least, they pretended to put everyone away, there, he n ‘There are not even enough places, “lamelored Claire Millot, from the Salam association.
In a statement dated Monday in which he reproached the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, to have “hidden” the migrant camps of Grande-Synthe during his coming on the coast Saturday, the mayor of the City, Martial Beyaert, pleaded for the opening of coastlines on the coast. “These places of refuge necessary for the day before the winter would firstly allow the exiles to live under conditions worthy, but also to leave the influence of smugglers”, had affirmed the Edile, also requesting the State of ” Keep the commitment taken “as to” the distribution of meals “.
Since Monday, October 11, Philippe Demeestère, Chaplain of Catholic Secours Calais, Anaïs Vogel and Ludovic Holbein, a couple of thirties mobilized for several months with the migrants, have started a hunger strike in Calais to denounce the Deplorable survival conditions on the spot of exiles and the dialogue of deaf between state and associative actors.
In December 2020, a delegation from the National Consultative Commission for Human Rights (CNCDH) was on the North Coast. The dismantlements should be accompanied by shelter solutions, a “humanitarian imperative”, wrote the institution in a public opinion, “taking into account the distress and the extreme deprivation” of these persons, who make the object of a “denial of existence”. The “deterioration of the conditions in which exiled people survive in the border zone as well as the recurring violation of their fundamental rights are unacceptable,” still tacled the CNCDH.