“Our [municipal] means are not enough” and “shelter is under the state,” advanced the mayor, Jeanne Barseghian (EELV), to justify this decision, during a conference of Press Monday.
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The Strasbourg councilor decided to start an showdown with the state before the courts. The Municipality of Strasbourg will thus attack the latter for its “failure” to shelter people living on the street, notably migrants, announced on Monday, December 5, Jeanne Barseghian. The environmental councilor, elected in 2020 at the head of the city, invites all the “elected officials” and “associations” who wish to join “this action in responsibility against the State”.
“Our [municipal] means are not enough to respond to this great distress and this humanitarian crisis. Was shelter is a deficiency, there is a deficiency, so I decided that the city of Strasbourg would be a responsibility for the state against the state, because of this failure, “she said at a press conference on Monday. M Me Barseghian did not specify a date of referral to the jurisdiction – obviously the Administrative Court (TA) – explaining that it would take place “as quickly as possible”.
“Unprecedented humanitarian crisis”
“We really get to the end of a model. France is experiencing an unprecedented humanitarian crisis with, in all major French cities, hundreds of people, including very vulnerable, sick, children, who are in The street in the cold, without rights, without access to care, in misery “, argued, Monday, the elected environmentalist, adding that
“Strasbourg is no exception to the rule.”
During her speaking, Jeanne Barseghian also attacked the President of the Republic because of a broken promise which he had nevertheless formulated at the start of his first mandate: “I still remind you that One of the first promises of Emmanuel Macron in 2017, it was that in the end [of that same year] there would be no one on the street. As much to tell you that five and a half years later, obviously , this promise is absolutely not kept. “
This decision arises while the mayor of Strasbourg lost last Friday on a file which opposed it to the prefect of the Bas-Rhin, Josiane Chevalier, about a camp of migrants. Located in the city center of the Alsatian capital, the latter had up to two hundred people, many from Georgia, Albania and Macedonia.
Evacuation of a camp ordered by the Prefecture
The administrative court thus ordered the city, at the end of the week, to evacuate the camp, “with unsanitary and indecent conditions”, at the request of the representative of the State, advancing in a press release: “Given the fact that the deficiency of the mayor of Strasbourg brings a serious attack on human dignity, the judge in summary proceedings injoin him to evacuate the camp within three days.”
The city of Strasbourg had said that she did not wish to appeal to “the court decision which orders her to evacuate the camp [and that she was going to seize the state services to obtain her competition “. “This judgment does not rule on the shelter of men, women and children present on the site of the Star Park, a question however essential to human dignity”, she regretted however.
Monday, the Alsatian prefecture said that it had granted the town hall the assistance of the public force for this evacuation while the camp was about to be dismantled.