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Calais: migrants evacuated from a camp, three days after clashes with the police

2022-01-02T16:18:32.018Z


The evacuation of migrants in Calais could not be carried out on Thursday because of the clashes. Migrants were evacuated early Sunday afternoon from land they occupied in Calais, three days after violent clashes with the police on the same site, AFP learned from the authorities. and associations. Read alsoCalais in the migrant trap This operation on the basis of flagrance had " two objects ", according to the deputy prosecutor of Boulogne-sur-Mer, Patrick Leleu: to carry out the evacuation


Migrants were evacuated early Sunday afternoon from land they occupied in Calais, three days after violent clashes with the police on the same site, AFP learned from the authorities. and associations.

Read alsoCalais in the migrant trap

This operation on the basis of flagrance had "

two objects

", according to the deputy prosecutor of Boulogne-sur-Mer, Patrick Leleu: to carry out the evacuation which could not be carried out Thursday because of the clashes and "

if possible questioning

”in connection with this episode.

A "really violent" expulsion

Present on the spot, Emma, ​​of the inter-associative network Human Rights Observers (HRO), denounced to AFP a "

really violent

"

expulsion

, with a very large number of police and gendarmes, tear gas used "

for nothing

" and migrants "

chased so that they cannot take their belongings

".

Read also Calais: three migrants and a local resident injured in a brawl followed by a settling of scores

"

There was an announcement on the megaphone

(of the expulsion, Editor's note)

by the commissioner of Calais, in French, and two minutes after the cordon of CRS was formed, no one had time to recover whatever Either way, all but one or two tents were seized!

"She denounced, believing that it was"

retaliation for what happened Thursday

".

The activist reported three arrests, a figure not confirmed by the prosecution in the early afternoon.

According to her, around 200 migrants, mostly Sudanese and often minors, lived in this camp, which had already been dismantled several weeks ago.

"

It is a forced displacement, without offer of accommodation

", she pointed out.

A "permanent disinformation"

The site is located near a roundabout where migrants regularly attempt to board heavy goods vehicles in the hope of reaching the UK.

"

The rights of exiled people are still and always violated

" lamented the association Auberge des migrants on its Twitter account.

"

The operation went well, there was no particular violence

", summarized for his part the secretary general of the prefecture of Pas-de-Calais, Alain Castanier, denouncing a "

permanent disinformation

" of migrant aid associations.

Read alsoMigrants: in Calais, chronicles of 20 years that follow and look alike

Thursday morning, clashes broke out between security forces and migrants during an attempt to dismantle this camp.

HRO had already denounced that the migrants were prevented from recovering personal effects.

Alain Castanier reported "

15 police officers and 8 gendarmes injured

" that day, including a police officer still hospitalized on Sunday, following an open fracture of the tibia.

Source: lefigaro

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