Philippe Demeestère, 72 years, puts an end to his action to denounce the treatment inflicted on the exiles in the city of the Hauts-de-France and will “put into operation a new winter shelter”.
Le Monde with AFP
In the aftermath of the creation of the creation of a night accommodation SAS in Calais by the mediator of the government, the priest Philippe Demeestère, chaplain of the 72-year-old Catholic rescue, announced on Thursday, November 4th. He ended his hunger strike started twenty-five days ago to denounce the treatment of migrants in Calais.
The two associative activists Anaïs Vogel and Ludovic Holbein continue to strike the strike, he said in a statement. “I remain totally supportive of the determination that is theirs, because the proposals made so far by the authorities do not take into account the routes of the exiled persons to whom we never give the floor,” he has affirmed.
This strike, engaged on October 11, “represented for me a tool among others, to undermine the immobilies, to stop the infernal mechanics which submits the exiled persons to inhuman and degrading treatment on the Calaisian lands,” said The Jesuit priest. From today, “I resume the site prior to commissioning, on Calais, a new winter shelter for the most vulnerable exiled people,” also announced the retiree originally in the last two years of The opening of winter reception places for refugees.
Creation of a “night hosting SAS”
Sent in mediation to Calais by the government in recent days, the boss of the French office of immigration and integration, Didier Leschi, announced Wednesday the creation of a “night accommodation SAS “Three hundred seats, which will be open every day after the evacuations” of migrants. The people who will go there will then be “oriented towards the perennial accommodation outside Calais” the next morning, he said.
This structure must make it possible to keep the promises of the State, which is committed on Tuesday to offer “systematically” accommodation to the dislodged migrants of their impales of fortune.
Mr. Leschi’s proposals had been found to be inadequate by local associations, which denounce the living conditions of some 1,500 migrants currently present in Calais and continue to claim a “moratorium” on evacuations.