It is a small cluster which swells, discreetly, a few hundred meters from Roissy airport, where the authorities are nevertheless keen to strengthen controls in an attempt to stem the spread of variants in France.
In the waiting area for pending people, known as "Zapi", wait up to 26 days for all those who cannot prove that their entry into France is legal before being sent back to their country of origin - or released. .
Time to contract Covid-19 and spread it: since January, 20 migrants have tested positive, some of whom have been released on French territory without health monitoring.
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“There are more and more sick people. We had several proven last week, and others with evocative signs
, notes Laure Palun, director of the National Association of Border Assistance for Foreigners (Anafé), to
Le Figaro
.
"A migrant from an African country received the result of her positive test at the end of her hearing before the judge of freedoms and detention, before being released on the territory."
Lack of ventilation, lack of disinfection, wearing of the mask irregular and cramped premises: in the waiting area, the virus is proliferating, according to the associations that intervene. Anafé suspended its mission on the spot on April 24, when the Red Cross had exercised its right of withdrawal the previous week.
"We could not afford to let our volunteers expose themselves so much, nor tolerate such conditions of detention,"
continues Laure Palun.
To date, at least 126 people are held in the waiting area, including a significant number of Indian nationals.
“About sixty Indians arrived suddenly, doubling the number of people in the Zapi
,” explains Laure Palun.
According to the vice-president of freedoms and detention at the Bobigny judicial court Philippe Damulot, the latter were arrested during a stopover while they were trying to reach the United States.
"They generally have an authentic passport, but have encountered boarding refusals at Roissy, opposed by the airline or the foreign authorities"
, explains Philippe Damulot to Le Parisien.
Some of them have chosen to seek asylum in France.
Released on the territory ... without additional testing
At the end of the 26 days of detention, the nationals are either expelled to their country of origin or released on French territory. Meanwhile, many people refuse PCR tests, as negative screening conditions boarding to the original destination. Of the 52 people received in court on Friday 23, eighteen were released on French territory ... Without appropriate health monitoring.
The sudden arrival of these Indian nationals is worrying while India is currently experiencing an unprecedented epidemic outbreak, with its local variant that France fears to see entering the national territory.
"We have just reinstated the obligation of airport transit visas for Indian nationals to avoid new arrivals and are working with the Indian embassy in Paris and the Indian authorities in New Delhi to remove those who are currently in Roissy",
indicates the press service of the Ministry of the Interior to Mediapart.
Unrelated to
Zapi, we
learned on the evening of Thursday that a first case of an Indian variant of the coronavirus had been detected in Lot-et-Garonne.
The “sequencing was done in Toulouse on a patient who had returned from India and who was taking a test again because he had to go abroad.
We have identified that it was the Indian variant and therefore the entire retrotracing, isolation and protection system for all people has been put in place vis-à-vis this Indian variant ”, explained Benoît Elleboode, director. regional ARS, to BFMTV and CNews.
On CNews, he added that a second case, this time in Bordeaux, was suspected.
"The virus is being sequenced at Bordeaux University Hospital and we will have the answer normally tomorrow" Friday.
The Minister of Health Olivier Véran had indicated Tuesday that "no case of variant of Indian origin" had been detected "in metropolitan France".
