Updated Monday 22:30: Reeve North Jean-François Cordet has “put on notice” Grande-Synthe from the mayor to withdraw his security stopped allowing the opening of a new migrant camp in his town, he said in a statement released Monday evening.
people arrive by bus, family, from the muddy camp Basroch, less than two kilometers. The camp Linière, on the site of a former flax processing cooperative in Grande-Synthe, near Dunkirk (North), opened Monday morning in front of the cameras. Fir cabins, gravel floor, away from the frozen mud of the ocean Basroch. Some 400 Kurdish and Iranian exiles had moved to 17 hours on 1200 1 500 people camp account, according to Doctors Without Borders, which provides the infrastructure, with the city and the urban community. “We are said “Come here, you will be better installed. We have heated cabins, showers. it’s better than the jungle” says Behrouz (the real name), an Iranian photographer and documentary 35 years. He moved again but tells others are wary. “people think that the British government sent people in France to move us and identify us. They are afraid of being refused asylum on arrival in the UK. They fear a trap. Not me. “ His only concern at the moment is that it is stuck there for eight months. ” my boatman left with my money, 6500 euros. I do not know what I can do. I try to go all alone, by Belgium. I know that Britain is not paradise, but I know where to go. And I do not want to stay in France because I’m afraid the French deport me. “
Local Security Commission
There have been some problems with the state. By early afternoon, volunteers complained of a blockage of the prefecture, luggage searched migrants. “Not at all , answers a spokesman prefect, but the prefect learned that the municipality had not met the local security committee, which includes representatives of the municipality, firefighters and police. He therefore block the buses, pending the meeting of the Committee at 15h. The prefect may call on the Mayor to ensure that the security conditions are regulatory. There are cabins, oil fires, electricity ‘ Mayor Damien Lent (EE-LV) is annoyed. “It’s amazing. Reeve took out of his boot the safety commission’s story, because he does not want this camp. Until the end, he will have tried the little beast. This morning I spent an hour and a half with the firefighters, we watched the fire extinguishers, how was managed oil. The prefect asked me to stop the move, I refused, so he did prohibit bus to leave. I went there and I did from the bus “ In the afternoon, the Safety Commission delivered its verdict.. Unfavorable opinion of the police and firefighters, favorable opinion of the mayor “If something happens, it is I who am responsible , sighs it. the prefect continues to repeat myself. But how could I let him continue Basroch the camp? “
Photo Aimee Thirion for Libération
“A quarantine” of employees
Born in 2006, after the closure of the Sangatte camp, and because of the area of nearby motorway where migrants sneak into the trucks, the camp Basroch held by Kurdish smugglers, has long housed only a few dozen people, but in terrible conditions. To the point that a newborn baby girl, Glara, died there in February 2009, in the almost general indifference. After the summer of 2015, the number of migrants has risen to 2,500 people. What has long been a green lawn surrounded by trees became a muddy camp, where one sinks to the ankle. According Behrouz, the exiled Iranian, the price of “guaranteed” passage is now to 12 000 over the camp.
The camp Linière, much safer than the camp Basroch (which should please the prefect), it is with international standards, according to the municipality of Grande-Synthe, which mandated the MSF to implement. The camp is run by Utopia 56, a Breton association whose manager, Yann Manzi is used to manage the camping festivals, like the Old plows. The mayor and the urban community of Dunkirk invested half a million euros to create the camp, will pay 2.5 million a year to pay, ultimately, “forty” of employees, according the town hall. MSF has provided 2.7 million.
Aziz Iraqi Kurd, 30, musician, moves in his cabin warm with his wife Bokan, 21, and their daughter Meisa, a year and a half. He traveled with his saz, a kind of long-necked lute. There is also a small portable organ, on which he plays a few notes. They too are stuck here for two months. “We have more money.”
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