Four columns on a white sheet. “Towards Ouistreham, Towards Caen, Number of controlled Migrants, Number of Migrants verbalized” . The table revealed by the CGT, is intended to be filled by the controllers of the bus that connects Caen Ouistreham. The direction of Twisto , the transport network of the ‘ Caen la Mer, has them in fact requested count the number of migrants on board. In a second manuscript document, in case the first n ‘ have not been clear enough, the written management’ Make checks on the line 61 per team. The prefecture asks us to maintain this level of presence. If you suspect the presence of squats, thank you to trace information (specific place). “
Line 61 was not chosen at random. It is borrowed by migrants who want to reach the port of Ouistreham, and then try to reach England. “This is a system of communicating vessels. They try other ports on the coast as it became harder to Calais “, says one to the host organization The Compass.
” The officers alerted us, “ says Samuel Varnier, CGT secretary of the health and safety of working conditions of the transport company committee. “They are very uncomfortable, some refuse also to do what count.” Thierry POULLENNEC representing CGT retired section, attended one of the famous counting operations. He dares the comparison: “If by decree the government of the day has commandeered buses to proceed with what has been called the raid ”
Neither the management. Twisto nor the Calvados prefecture apparently not willing to assume the paternity of this measure. According to France Bleu Normandie, the transport company assured staff representatives have acted on the orders of the prefecture. The prefect Laurent Fiscus yet provides otherwise. “The reports from public transport operators are spontaneously put together from the police” says in a statement sent Tuesday. He said, however: “It was then suggested to carry out more regular checks on lines where the offenses were committed regularly. This information is naturally lifts the authorities because the controllers of all public transport can bring some information regarding safety in public places regardless of the problem. “
“no matter who is behind! , will prevail Eric Vève, councilor of the opposition (PS), what matters is to stop it at the quick. The measure contravenes the principle of non-discrimination “ The lawyer, warned last Thursday by Thierry POULLENNEC, asks:. ” Does the count is based on physical appearance “
“How we identify the people are migrants? It obviously induces physical appearance. That is the ethnic profiling “ says without hesitation Maugendre Stéphane, President of Gisti (Information and Support Group for Immigrants) and criminal lawyer. “It is in the context of a criminal offense” , he said. The objective according to him, encouraging checks of people of migrant appearance to swell the statistics in terms of offense to transport. “Then they are used to tell ” Look, they cheat more! “ But also to ask the prosecution of identity checks in places given due to a strong offense rate . “
Another legal problem, and not least, ” the controllers do not have the right to carry out identity checks “ says the lawyer Nathalie Ferré. They can indeed take the identity of the passengers just in case of trouble, “one foot on a seat, a dog without a muzzle or no transit pass” , to establish a violation. Conclusion: “This is illegal and discriminatory.”
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