A thousand migrants
"still survive the streets"
on the coast of the North and Pas-de-Calais, placed in orange vigilance
"great cold"
by Météo France, alert nine associations Monday, demanding an accommodation system
"adapted to the situation of extreme emergency ”.
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“More than 1,000 women, men, children and unaccompanied minors still survive on the street, in the forest. The prefectures of Nord and Pas-de-Calais have announced the opening of accommodation places, but the device is still not suited to the situation of extreme emergency. It is imperative to be able to access these places 24 hours a day, at the risk of finding dozens of people in a situation of hypothermia and extreme life-threatening emergency ”
, plead these associations, including Salam, Utopia 56 and Auberge des migrants , in a joint statement Monday evening.
While Météo France forecasts temperatures of -5 ° C to -7 ° C this week in these departments, with a feeling between -14 ° C and -16 ° C, the authorities have announced that they have opened two hangars this weekend in Calais for single men, as well as
“other accommodation”
for women, families and unaccompanied minors.
In Grande-Synthe, in addition to the accommodation places usually dedicated to welcoming migrants in winter,
"the camps are the subject of increased attention with the strengthening of patrols and accommodation proposals"
and
"177 people accepted this weekend and today to be taken care of ”,
assures the North prefecture in a press release.
But for associations, the device is insufficient.
“Just this weekend, the Utopia 56 teams were called in for 8 shipwrecks in the middle of the night.
A majority of the people we met returned to sleep in the street, soaked, for lack of emergency shelter solutions.
This is why we are asking for the establishment of civil protection marauding which can take care of people in distress at any time, ”
they write.
"Given the urgency of the situation, we ask for the establishment of an exceptional and immediate device on the coast allowing the shelter of populations exposed to these dangerous climatic conditions"
, conclude the associations, accompanying the release of photographs of tents and tarpaulins lined up in the snow, along fences installed around wooded lots.