The authorities expelled approximately 70 migrants from a squat near a fort in Calais on Friday, November 13 in the morning and offered a hundred others living near the hospital to be "
sheltered
" as part of the process. confinement, according to the Pas-de-Calais prefecture.
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Around Fort Nieulay, the police calmly evacuated Sudanese migrants who lived in tents on communal fields.
“
At the end of this first operation, 70 exiles were taken care of by the prefectural services aboard buses to be taken to reception centers
,” reported the sub-prefect of Calais, Michel Tournaire.
Forty police vehicles were on site, blocking the area between a commercial area and a district of Calais.
No member of the associations was able to attend this expulsion.
"
The teams have been systematically fined and prevented from observing since the start of the confinement
", warns in a press release Human Rights Observers (HRO), an inter-association collective in Calais and Dunkirk "
of observation, data collection and 'analysis of the state of human rights of exiled persons
'.
"
Thus this violence and this harassment will remain invisible
", she denounces, listing "
arbitrary arrests, forced shelters, seizures and destruction of personal property, and the harassment that evictions represent for these people
".
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A second operation took place near the hospital center, where the prefecture services offered migrants, mainly Iranians, a "
shelter
" on the basis of "
voluntary service
" as part of the confinement imposed to fight against the disease. epidemic of Covid-19.
According to figures from the prefecture, 101 people were then "
sheltered
" and two minors "
taken care of
" by the association France terre d 'Asile.
The town hall of Calais (LR) was also to ask the Lille administrative court on Friday to authorize the police to expel between 80 and 90 migrants squatting near the Calypso sports and cultural center, according to the associations lawyer Eve Thieffry.
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