In a letter sent Monday to the mayor of Nice as well as a second to the prefect of the Alpes-Maritimes, the Maralpine deputies Éric Ciotti and Christelle d'Intorni denounced the installation of a Roma camp on the banks which run along the A8 motorway, close to the prefecture, summoning the municipality and state services to intervene to dismantle these makeshift dwellings.
The municipality immediately reacted through the first Deputy Delegate for Security, Anthony Borré, sweeping aside the accusations leveled against the mayor of Nice,
"who is not the owner of the plot"
and tackling the elected officials on Twitter:
“When do parliamentarians mobilize to facilitate deportation procedures?
And the departmental advisers on the protection of children?
For its part, the prefecture published a press release Thursday evening, recalling in turn not to be the owner of the premises which belong to the motorway company ESCOTA, of the Vinci group.
The latter would have been
“invited to seize the judge to obtain an expulsion order, a prerequisite and necessary for any forced evacuation.
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In fact, the prefect will only be able to call on the assistance of the police to have the camp evacuated once the eviction order has been issued by the summary proceedings judge to the motorway company.
It will then be able to set up a social support plan for the people present, in particular minors and vulnerable people, but also take expulsion measures against foreign nationals illegally present on the territory.
In its press release, the prefecture also informs elected officials Ciotti and Intorni that
“Other partners will have to intervene on this issue.
The Departmental Council in its competences relating to the protection of children is concerned by this operation because of the reported presence of minor children.
Finally, the State services will exercise all the responsibilities incumbent on them.
Four camps dismantled in three years
Finally, the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes recalls having participated in three years in the dismantling of four "
large
" camps on the territory of the Nice Côte d'Azur metropolis, by granting the assistance of the police to the owners of land victims of these illegal facilities.
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In total, over this period, more than 250 people were evacuated from the camps located in Nice and Saint Laurent du Var.
These are the Luciano camps in 2020, Lingostière in 2021, the Bd Mercantour flyover and the Iscles site in 2022
,” she says.
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Removal measures from French territory were taken in each case.
After the eviction of the Boulevard du Mercantour flyover camp in September 2022, "
daily monitoring of the site and its surroundings by the police was set up by the prefecture, in conjunction with the city of Nice.
This follow-up gave rise to several interventions by the national and municipal police forces, thus avoiding the resettlement of the squatters
,” she continues.
Thanks to this monitoring, last November, the services of the prefecture were able to quickly identify the installation of an illegal camp of Bulgarian nationals occupying tents on a plot located on the boulevard du Mercantour on the edge of the A8 (near crossing with the road to Grenoble).
Given the security problems linked to the proximity of road and motorway infrastructures, the prefecture, as part of its missions, has launched all the procedures to put an end to this situation.
“The ALC operator commissioned by the prefecture to clear up the slums quickly initiated a social assessment of this camp and as part of the “zero street children” emergency plan launched by the Minister of Housing.
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