inexorably dismantling the southern area of the Calais jungle, organized by the prefect Fabienne Buccio continues. Tuesday, almost a hectare of this part of the slum occupied by 3,450 persons was razed. On the ground, on the ground soggy, there are no more than pieces of plastic. Furniture, mattresses, kitchen accessories, everything was evacuated by an endless stream of skips. But unlike the government promises all the refugees do not leave their shelter voluntarily and all have no fallback.
At night, Babak was staring into the void. Unceremoniously ejected from his shelter Tuesday morning, he saw his two-month pregnant sister and brother were arrested while on the roof of their hut to prevent its destruction. Since there is no news of them. As he has no place to sleep, this Iranian 26 years wanted to retry the crossing to England the same evening. But no way to leave without her sister.
As Babak, there are many, dazed, shocked, to wander aimlessly through the camp of the Moor. Zirak, an Iraqi 22 years also lost her shelter this morning. Party take his breakfast, he found the cabin destroyed, thrown his affairs, without warning. To sleep, he may have a place in a tent, further north of the area occupied by other Iraqis, though, as he hopes, one of them is able to join the United Kingdom
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not even a duvet
Majnun has nothing since Monday. The first night, he walked without stopping, without purpose. Unthinkable for him to accept a place in the camp of containers installed by the government: give his palm print to register, refuse that most migrants, for fear of being deported to their country of entry into Europe.
on Tuesday evening, Majnun resolved to join the civil security tents on the edge of the slum, near the ring road leading to the ferry port. Simple paintings under which align camp beds laid on the sand. Majnun shows the place, without a word. He has nothing to say. And it does not fluff.
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on Tuesday evening, migrants burned some of the houses promised to destruction the next morning. empty gesture but will regain control against the impotence. Meanwhile, to the west of the camp, where most shops and restaurants are concentrated, the daily continues as if nothing happened. When the bulldozers of the construction company Sogea will they arrive there? We do not know. Or preferred not to know. Amid the hum of generators, the groups argue, between the stalls of a strange night market. Again and again, the life that takes over.
“It is they who have a problem”
At the heart of the humanitarian disaster, this is the life force that makes keep Zimako Jones, emblematic figure of the Moor camp. This irreducible optimistic is the origin of the creation of the secular school of the dune road with Virginia Tiberghien and friends. As always, the young man was ready to mediate. The prefecture did not hear his call
Mr “No problem” wants to deceive. “It is they who have a problem, we, we’re at home here..” Yet it is his dream to “jungle” became new city, open to all, goes up in smoke. Zimako looks good but it is limping along.
All we built was brought down in a second. We called but they started to demolish everything. As it was not suspensive, when the decision is made, it will be too late. Power abuse. “
The prefect has committed not to destroy the living places such as school, library and places of worship. In many homes, the refugees and their supporters have also painted the inscription “place of life”.
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Not enough to stop the construction machines and even though the school is still standing, what meaning will. -t if she is alone in the middle of a carefully shaved area? “it will be quite the challenge in the days and weeks to come: do people still come to school,” said Virginia Tiberghien volunteer teacher.
in the adult class last week, there were not enough chairs. on Tuesday, they are only three daring move for french lessons, impressed the police device that frames the work of destruction around the school. Among them, Moussa. This 27 year old Sudanese permanent smile comes every day, no matter what. He made his application for asylum in France.
Moussa wants to stay in Calais. He even applied for a place in containers – 12 people in 30m² – but has not yet been answered:
Maybe tomorrow. All that matters is that I can continue to come to school. “
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Learn ephemeral
But how long will -t she keep? the willingness of the government to eliminate the jungle to leave the place only to containers and Jules Ferry camp, the reception center around which the development of the slum had been allowed to migrants gather in one place, away from Calais center.
If they destroy the school, it will be difficult of course, but this act belongs to them, “said Virginia.
the young woman was already involved in previous camps. It will assist in the following. For the current operation only disperse migrants in search of England. Few would accept to go to a reception and guidance center (CAD) away from here as they are so close to the goal for which they have traveled more than 11,000 kilometers, risking their lives.
Virginia wants to keep a school adventure’s lesson:
Here, we learn the ephemeral and intensity of the moment. We know very well that we built on sand but it does not detract from the beauty of the reality of the moment. “
A resurgence of wild camps
Authorities pushed ahead refugees settle in the camp associations involved on the spot immediately denounced the reception conditions unworthy of them, they had all the trouble to make a difference.. points installations water, sanitation, electricity … long, garbage was not collected. Gradually, everything is organized. living conditions have improved. A social organization began to be born. and it ‘ is precisely this point that the government has chosen to change the rules and say “enough is enough”.
they break the links, they dehumanize “indignant Virginia. “All that will remain refugees, are the containers or smuggling networks all pins are removed that they were beginning to have a result.. We’ll see flower again wild camps We will lose contact with people. . “
Member of the association Auberge migrants, Maya Konforti attends decommissioning:” what they destroy is the beginning of a normal life. ” She rages against the argument of the prefecture around the supposed violence of No Border present in the camp. “The No Border? But what does that mean? There are mostly young people who want to live differently. A handle may be the cause of some excesses but it happens in all groups of people. This is a pretext. “
Maya involved for years with migrants. What was being born in the camp, she had never seen. She knows, and denounced from the beginning, that the slum is not the solution, “but there was something interesting, mutual assistance and sharing. It was created gradually.”
the end of a world city
for this committed woman, the “jungle” had become a transition zone, where Europeans and migrants met, “integration in both directions. ” Maya observed a real shift in September, with the arrival of the many English volunteers camp, “full of energy and creativity. We learned a lot with them.” The theater, the legal center, clinic, school, community restaurant: many joint projects, developed with migrants
We were trying to find a kind of early solution ‘. how does one welcome ‘. With the dismantling, the government is breaking the common life. They prevent this vital meeting. “
For now, only the southern area is concerned” but it represents two thirds of the jungle and 90% of services. This is what gives life that is being deleted it. “
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As Virginia Maya is firmly rooted in the present: “We can not prevent the destruction, but the what is important is not to forget how to replicate all the good things that happened here. “
She laments what she considers a return to square one.
It has been 14 years of this, but with a lot more people this time there was a choice… integrate the slum or reject the government chooses to reject it and creates violence “
Tuesday’s day went smoothly but clashes the previous day showed that nothing could spark a conflagration.
for associations that work with migrants, the current demonstration power comes from breaking experimenting with a nascent world-city and only put refugees on the road. Virginia and others will follow but, sometimes, rarely more than a minute, sometimes the woman guard down: “It’s terrible to say there is no place on earth for Refugees. “
Louis Morice
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