Nearly a hundred young foreigners who asked the courts to be recognized as minors were ordered on Friday May 6 by the administrative court of Toulouse to leave within 20 days a place of accommodation opened in 2019.
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The city and the metropolis of Toulouse had set up in 2019 "
a temporary accommodation system
" for several dozen of these young people, with the support of several associations, recalls the court.
The former Toulouse Ehpad des Tourelles, where these young people still live who asked to be recognized as minors, was part of this experimental system.
Subsequently, the Communal Center for Social Action (CCAS), which became the owner of the building of the former Ehpad, "
decided to close it on January 25, 2022 and ordered the occupants to leave the premises
".
20 days to vacate the premises
The court further notes that "
the site had been the site of major disturbances that required the intervention of the police forces
" and that the CCAS would like to set up a maternal center there.
He then grants 20 days to the “
occupiers
” to “
vacate the premises
”.
This delay is intended to allow for the care of expelled persons.
At the end of January, Médecins du Monde, the Society of Saint-Vincent-de-Paul and the Tous-tes En Classe 31 (TEC 31) association, which continue to help people housed in the former nursing home, had called "
the Town Hall to waive the closure
"of this place of accommodation.
They also pointed to the risk of seeing “
young people aged 15, 16 or 17 coming to swell the ranks of those already too many who are homeless at night.
»
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For its part, the Autonomie collective, which includes people housed in the former Ehpad des Tourelles, had underlined the need in its eyes to preserve “
mutual assistance
” between “
unaccompanied minors
” who do not always speak French well.
He therefore called for “
a permanent and collective
system” of accommodation, in a leaflet distributed during a gathering of opponents of the expulsion before the administrative court on April 27, the day of the hearing on the subject.
