The government chose the hard way about the persistence of a camp of less than 4,000 migrants in Calais, the Prefecture of Pas-de-Calais announcing Friday the evacuation by force of half the “jungle “if migrants do not leave by Tuesday night.
Friday, while life continued its lively course in what is the heart of social life in the slum, the Prefecture, citing “urgency”, said in the early evening taking a “screeching halt? s expulsion? office” of the occupants of the “southern zone” of this vast camp of 18 ha, ordering the evacuation of the occupants refused by the most active associations in the camp said the moor.
“It’s made command occupants without right or title + site moor + in Calais to leave and release all persons and all property the right of way located in the area known + south + the camp (…) and at the latest Tuesday, February 23, 2016 at 20H, “it said in the decree sent to AFP and dated February 19.
“After this period, failing to have left the scene, there will be the evacuation of this area, if necessary with the assistance of the police,” it added.
A week ago, 12 February, the prefect of Pas-de-Calais Fabienne Buccio had claimed that “no one should live” on the southern area of the camp and that “everyone must leave this part “, with a deadline of one week to engage the movement. According to the prefecture, a total of 3,700 people, “800 to 1,000 migrants” live in this area, but rather to 2,000 associations locally.
So she stayed quiet in recent days, holding meetings with associations for convinces the merits of his project, the prefecture now holds an alarmist. In a statement, she speaks of “atrocities” committed by migrants, “are causing a worsening of the voltage level” with “in Calais population over the latest three weeks.” The prefecture said in particular have “seen daily (…) of projectiles thrown against the vehicles of road users and the security forces.”
She said such abuses “are manipulated by extremist movements. ”
It also denounced “abuses committed against migrants by members of small groups radicalized individuals around the camp of the moor” and alarm “calls for hatred and violence circulating on blogs collective ultra-left and ultra-right. ” Saturday, a “civic promenade” according to the name of the organizers (former French military that operated abroad, to be held in the city “despite the ban a rally called by the same in a stage port city.
“Closing time” of the jungle is requested insistently in recent weeks by the LR mayor of Calais, Natacha Bouchart.
Meanwhile, the government has intensified since the Earlier this week their efforts to persuade migrants to move in containers built in the north of the “Jungle” (1,500 seats, of which some 300 still available), or go to one of 98 reception centers and orientation (CAO) opened especially for them throughout France to consider an application for asylum.
There is already a month, 5 to 700 migrants had to clear out of a band of 100 m depth along the strategic road leading to the port. this happened without recourse to law enforcement.
But the second phase is hard to swallow for NGOs, for which alternatives proposed by the? state are “very far from meeting the needs.” Thursday, eight major associations involved in assisting migrants (including Emmaus, Doctors of the World and Secours Catholique) wrote to Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve asking him to “postpone the evacuation.” They must hold a press conference on Monday
Many migrants seized urgently the Lille tribunal “to suspend the decision” of the prefect in the name of human rights violation, said Friday at AFP Julie Bonnier their lawyer.
Thursday, Bernard Cazeneuve maintained its position on the evacuation of the southern zone, however, saying “listen to any proposal” that could make improvements to alternative solutions.
02/19/2016 8:42:19 p.m. – Calais (AFP) – AFP © 2016
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