The authorities expelled Friday, December 11, 120 migrants in Calais to "
put them to safety
", indicated the prefecture of Pas-de-Calais, while associations have once again denounced "
humiliating methods of the public authorities
".
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“
Three shelter operations for migrants present in Calais on the Roselière site, on the Virval site and on the Calypso site, were carried out after evacuations, carried out by the police on the legal basis for the flagrance
”, the prefecture specified in a statement, affirming that“
these operations took place in peace.
"
Prior to these operations, new patrols had been carried out on these sites to offer interested migrants shelter in various accommodation structures in the department
", she added.
A little earlier, the Auberge des migrants association and the Human Rights Observers collective once again denounced in a press release the "
shocking methods
" and "
abusive behavior
" of the intervention teams, by publishing videos taken by volunteers dated the beginning of the month.
On one of them, dated December 8 in Grande-Synthe (North), we see a member of the cleaning team, supervised by the police, slash a tent in a wood while he there is always someone inside.
The two associations argue that since January 1, "
more than 900 expulsions have been recorded in Calais, more than 80 expulsions in Grande-Synthe
", "
urging the public authorities to put an end to this inhuman policy of tracking and expulsion
" in an area where migrants have been concentrating for years trying to cross to Great Britain.
Along with seven other associations and 11 exiles, the Auberge des migrants brought the prefect before the Boulogne-sur-Mer judicial court for an expulsion operation on September 29 that they considered illegal.
The hearing, postponed for the first time, is to be held on December 16.