The mayor of Callac, in the Côtes-d’Armor, wanted to welcome some families of refugees in the next ten years, in order to revitalize his small declining town.
by Benoît Floc’h
Callac finally abandoned his project to receive refugees, widely publicized for six months. The various left left mayor of this big town in Côtes-d’Armor confirmed it to the Agency France-Presse (AFP), January 11. “Personally, explained Jean-Yves Rolland, I was for the project but it was no longer tenable, the municipal council was going to fall. (…) I assume the decision to stop.”
At the forefront of the opposition, the party of Eric Zemmour, reconquest !, Identify this “important symbolic victory against imposed immigration”. On the left, two deputies from France Insoumise, Thomas Portes (Seine-Saint-Denis) and Murielle Lepvraud (Côtes-d’Armor) regretted the abandonment of the project. “The government has let the situation rot in Callac and has not implemented anything to prevent the fascists from reigning terror in the town,” accused the two elected officials in a statement. Before alerting: this “unbearable complacency with fascist militias” leads “everywhere in the territory a trivialization of extreme right ideas”. At the unison of the new National Secretary of Europe-Ecology-Les Verts (EELV), Marine Tondelier, who considers that the “we have not talked enough about what happened in Callac, where the State abandoned elected officials in the face of threatening methods of the most dangerous extreme right “.
Callac had become a symbol, too heavy to wear for this small town. “Too much pressure, too many threats. We have dropped because we were not helped. That’s all,” regrets Laure-Line Inderbitzin, deputy mayor. The municipality thought it had found the Panacea to revitalize its small declining town, planted in Center-Brittany away from the major urban centers and the main axes.
threats and harassment of local elected officials
The “Horizon” project, on which the municipal council agrees in April with the Merci endowment fund, created in 2009 by a couple of entrepreneurs, plans to gradually welcome, over ten years, refugee families with Thank you support and support. The fund would serve as a lever to attract private subsidies and support, would help renovate buildings and facilitate the creation of new services: a crèche, a bookstore or a resourcery. “It is a response to many local challenges. The idea is simple: rejuvenate, revitalize our center-Brittany by welcoming new inhabitants, recalled M me Inderbitzin, early November 2022. And, repeat -The refugee people are a chance for our territories, with their skills and talents. “
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