A pro-migrant association decided, with the agreement of the parish, to sleep five young foreign migrants in the basilica of Alençon to alert the authorities to their fate. The prefect of the Orne denounces an "illegal occupation" The association has initiated proceedings before the juvenile judge in order to have the minority of the 17 undocumented migrants recognized.
The association considers that their care is the responsibility of the Child Social Assistance of the department of Orne, and not of the prefecture.