The "
generosity
" of the care of unaccompanied foreign minors generates a "
breath of fresh air
" in migratory flows to France, estimated Wednesday, September 8 an official from the Ministry of Justice, heard by the parliamentary commission of inquiry on migrations.
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"
The Ministry of the Interior is right to be vigilant on the air intake that our child protection system constitutes, both in a flow logic, but above all because we have to measure the course migration of these children, who are sent because we know that Europe protects children
"and who arrive"
shattered
", said Charlotte Caubel, director of judicial protection of young people (DPJJ) of the Ministry of Justice.
An "unconditional yes" to the protection of minors
"
It is our responsibility to pay attention to this specific call for air which puts minors in danger
", "
not to be naive in our generosity and therefore not to say that any person arriving and claiming to be a minor must be protected , enter the devices
”reserved for children, she added. She also said an "
unconditional yes to the protection of minors who are on our territory
", who must be "
accompanied, trained, educated and integrated
".
Faced with the protests of parliamentarians auditioning her, including the LREM deputy Stella Dupont ("
I can no longer hear this term of air intake which does not correspond to reality
"), Charlotte Caubel clarified the problem. care for “
unaccompanied minors
” (unaccompanied minors).
The issue, she explained, is "
that adults do not benefit from this protection, except to drown our devices
" and especially to make adults and minors coexist in places of accommodation, "
which is problematic
" .
9,500 unaccompanied minors placed in 2020
"
When my educators spend two years taking care of people who will end up giving their identity and that they are 25 or 28 years old, it is energy that they do not put for the real minors
", a deplored Charlotte Caubel, calling for the creation of a "
provisional identity document
" to facilitate the care of young people.
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Around 9,500 unaccompanied minors were placed in 2020, almost half as much as in 2019 (16,760, -43%), due in particular to the drop in migratory flows linked to Covid, according to figures from the DPJJ. Launched in May at the initiative of the composite group Libertés et Territoires (LT), the parliamentary inquiry committee on migration is due to hand in its work in November.