At least embers were needed to keep the flame burning... This Friday evening, it is at the foot of the town hall of Gennevilliers that the 83 former undocumented employees of the temporary employment company RSI met for a large solidarity barbecue. "18 have received a residence permit valid for one year and we think that with the examination of new documents, we could have more accepted files," said Elsa Faucillon, the PCF MP, at their side from the beginning.
This call was widely relayed on social networks. The objective is to maintain, if not relaunch, the mobilization around this group which held a picket line for nearly a year to obtain papers. On April 7, six months after meeting Gérald Darmanin in person, Elsa Faucillon learned that only "18 of them would receive a favorable response" and that therefore mathematically, the remaining 65 would find themselves deportable again.
Come and support the undocumented workers of RSI Gennevilliers, this Friday, May 12 from 18:30 pm, on the forecourt of the town hall. Support barbecue, support speeches. https://t.co/yUbARzi4i4 / pic.twitter.com/bgcZVulMkJ
— Patrice Leclerc - Gennevilliers 🔻🐝 (@patrice_leclerc) May 11, 2023
A few days later, while a rally was held in front of the prefecture, the secretary general took a step, announcing that those who had not received a favorable response would not receive an OQTF, the famous obligation to leave the territory. Neither regularizable nor deportable in short: an in-between waiting for their files to be examined again in detail with new documents proving not only that these men work but in addition that they have nothing to reproach themselves. "We are still determined," says Mahamadou, one of the leaders of the RSI. Hope is not dead, we continue! »
Olympic construction sites targeted
For his part, Patrice Leclerc recalls that this workforce, construction companies have a vital need. In particular those launched in the marathon of the construction sites of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. "Without these workers without regularizable papers, the construction sites of the Olympics can not end, summarizes the elected official. Their work is useful to the France so let's give them papers! »
A week ago to the day, on May 5, members of the support committee and the collective of sans-papiers de Vitry, which structured their struggle, arrived at dawn in the Pleyel district of Saint-Denis. It is impossible for users leaving the metro in this district, which is in the heart of the forest of Olympic construction sites, to miss their banner and leaflets.
Saint-Denis, May 5. Members of the RSI employee support committee demonstrated and distributed leaflets at the foot of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games construction sites to raise awareness of the situation of undocumented workers.
The fight of the RSI began on October 22, 2021 in Gennevilliers when the undocumented employees of the temporary employment company RSI had stopped work with an objective that has not changed one iota since: to obtain the regularization of all by collectively filing their files in the prefecture. Since then, hopes and cold showers follow one another as well as demonstrations, rallies and other solidarity actions. A barbecue had already warmed the group on December 24, 2021. Since then, the situation has changed little.
