Twenty-seven men in an irregular situation, placed in an administrative detention center after the evacuation on Wednesday of a camp of crack users in Paris, filed an appeal on Friday.
The court dismissed 24 appeals and kept the applicants in detention for a maximum period of 28 days.
Only three benefited from a cancellation of the procedure.
These men were arrested on Wednesday morning in the Square Forceval sector, in the north-east of Paris, after a police operation carried out by the police headquarters on the instructions of the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin.
“Roughly edited procedures”
The appeals took place in an annex of the Bobigny judicial court located at the foot of the runways of Roissy airport by Cimade, which has a branch near the administrative detention center of Mesnil-Amelot (Seine-et- Marl).
“We condemn this type of arrest especially since these people need a course of care, many are in forced withdrawal”
, argued Louise Lecaudey, regional manager of retention at Cimade.
“We are dealing with procedures in a hurry, without an interpreter.
OQTFs (obligation to leave the territory) have been notified to people coming from countries at war such as Syria, Sudan, Somalia
,” she added.
Among the applicants, Hamadou Diallo, 22, a homeless Ivorian who was arrested at 9:20 a.m. and his detention ended at 7:02 p.m.
“Ten hours without having been fed”
, without
“examination of his vulnerability before his placement in CRA”
, alerted Me Sophie Weinberg.
For this lawyer who defends several detained men, the police headquarters conducted
"mass procedures but did not have the capacity to enforce everyone's rights".
“We have roughly set up procedures.
We asked one of my clients for the address of his tent!”
, got carried away the lawyer.
“We are poor”
, soberly declared Moussa Tounkara, helped by his interpreter when the president asked him to speak.
This young man arrested at Square Forceval said he was Ivorian.
His lawyer, Julia Moroni, requested the cancellation of the procedure on the grounds that he was
"deprived of his rights"
, such as that
of "seeing a doctor"
and pleaded that his condition is not compatible with detention.
During the hearing, a young man, explained in the Hausa language, spoken in West Africa, to have
"done nothing"
.
“You are not here because you have committed an offense but for a paper problem”
, tried to explain the president of the court.
For several years, the authorities have been struggling to solve the problem of crack, a smokable and very addictive derivative of cocaine, called
"poor man's drug"
because of its low cost (10 euros per dose).
Consumers have been moved several times, to the ire of residents north of the capital.
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