You will be the first mayor of France to have on your common humanitarian camp built by Médecins Sans Frontières. What is your state of mind at the first day of the move?
Damien Lent: I am satisfied that women, children and men living in conditions unworthy can access a more humane system. Doctors Without Borders has done an extraordinary job. The new space is obviously summary, I am pleased that we are able to worthily accommodate 1500 persons in 213 cabins heated by wood, available today, which will increase to 375. They will have available places life, electrical outlets to recharge their phones, showers, restrooms, retail venues and a space where Doctors without borders and Doctors of the world will in turn treat them.
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the new camp is farther from the city center. Everyone he will move
Angélique Muller: The move is done on a voluntary basis. But we are working for two months to convince families and already have a list of nearly 800 volunteers to change their place. Late last week, we organized visits to the new camp, so they can see the progress of work, and the feedback is very positive.
How exactly will pass the move
Angélique Muller: Twenty-five MSF staff will oversee 100 volunteers from all local and international associations in action for months, present on the two sites. We will be at both ends of the chain, able to organize the same time departures and arrivals
Damien Lent. municipality side, we put five buses that will make available shuttles up to 17 h 30. the idea is that people do not take their belongings. hygiene kits will be distributed to them upon arrival as well as kits of nights. They will not come with their mattress.
What will happen if Wednesday migrants do not want to change locations?
Damien Lent: They will be evacuated on Thursday by police. I do not want to keep both sides and I think they put ill will if they refuse to migrate to the new space that we offer.
I need to recover quickly this field . I’m embarking as an elected official, with residents and I will build in place of encampment Basroch, an ecological area.
A Great Synthe, nearly 3,000 migrants, mainly Kurdish, live the waterfront near the city center.
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Angélique Muller: We would have liked to have more time, but we will the point with the town hall on the progress of the move by Wednesday.
How then will operate the daily management of this new place?
Damien Lent: Utopia 56, the association that provides all the logistics of the Festival des Vieilles plows, coordinate the local presence of many volunteers. The many associations and volunteers who already palliated the state’s failings in the former camp will continue to operate, and are welcome, but more organized today under the gaze of Utopia 56. This means that meals will be delivered, distributions organized clothing and social marauding continue
Angélique Muller. in addition to local medical consultations provided in a hard building with d ‘ running water and medical referral system to health facilities, MSF will continue its outreach patrols. Going to meet vulnerable people, sick people, remains essential for us. And until the end of April we will distribute the oil that will allow each family to warm
Damien Lent. I should add that an association will maintain the health and showers. The AFEJI will handle the management of health (clean showers, toilets, regularization access to showers and marauding system
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Who pays for the installation and operation of this first humanitarian camp to international standards?
Angélique Muller: MSF spent € 2.6 million to this facility We will not be reimbursed by the State We are an independent actor and play in Grande-Synthe our role as.. humanitarian organization, as we do elsewhere in the world facing human beings is allowed to live in extreme conditions.
that said, our achievement shows the state that there not need ten million for dignity install between one and two thousand migrants. volunteering is important, people want to help and it seems important from a citizen perspective to enable them .
Damien Lent: the mayor of Grande-Synthe, it has invested $ 500 000 for this facility and we hope that the state will reimburse us the money. We also hope that it supports the annual 2.5 million euros operating the place. The municipality of Grande-Synthe not afford to do so
This camp he will be controlled as can be the Calais container camp?
Damien Lent: No! Of course. There will be just four constables before preventing people from entering with tents
Angélique Muller. There was no question that the inputs and outputs are controlled. We are humanitarian workers, not police officers. We have clearly expressed our desire to access free recording and / or fingerprinting.
It is common knowledge that the Baroch camp is run by smugglers. The new camp he will also
Damien Lent: The city hopes to regain control. Seventeen smugglers were arrested past two weeks. I am an elected and I also hope that the police and the courts do their job. For police interventions continue to be possible on the new camp when needed, the town has bought two thirds of the land on which the new camp is installed
Angelique Muller.: MSF leases a third of the land.
Have you seen arrivals from Calais?
Angélique Muller: time arrivals but not in large numbers. But the population of the two camps differ, here 90% of the population is Kurdish Iraq, it may be that the Iraqi Kurds come from Calais. They are a group of a few hundred, which is absorbable.
In October-November 2500 migrants were in Grande Synthe, they are just over 1000 today and n ‘were only a few hundred from the Centres Reception and Orientation (CAO) of the government. What happened to the other
Damien Lent: You really asking the question? They had paid to go to Britain … They are definitely going in as we speak.
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