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Evictions in Calais and Paris

Today the French police evicted the Squat Galloo and the jungle near the Leader Price supermarket. Opened in July 2014 by a collaoration between associations, migrants and activists, at one point home to over 300 people, Galloo was a space in Calais for people to gather, share a meal, charge phones, and rest. It was people’s home.

This morning at 6am the eviction at Galloo started by 10am the numbers of police had increased. The police surrounded the 12,000m square disused metal reclamation building blocking off all possible exits. People staying inside were given a limited time to collect possessions and were escorted from the building through a side entrance. Reports claim that 66 people were arrested and around 40 of them were taken to the detention center in Coqulles, although this is not confirmed. There is now security on the premises.

At the Leader Price Jungle, which had already experienced a semi-eviction earlier this year, scores of Gendarms cleared the area around the supermarket, forcing people from their sleeping spaces. There are reports of arrests from here aswell.

The new destination for the people ejected from their shelters, the open air prison on the outskirts of Calais, the new jungle surrounding the Jules Ferry Center. Those evicted today were those who had been resisting against the ‘voluntary’ move to the new day centre for over two months, having been pressured by the police and other state organisations to leave at the end of March. Here is a statement from the residents in Galloo, written back at the end of March to explain why they didn’t willingly move to the new centre.

This police operation was co-ordinated as well with the eviction of a large jungle in La Chapelle in Paris, which was home to over 350 people.

 

 

police plan actions for tomorrow, friday

we got called by friends from the syrian community who live outside the church and the friends who live outside the BCMO saying that the police have gone there today, thursday, once more. The police said that they will come tomorrow, friday to destroy their homes.
The ultimatum to leave for the people in front of the BSMO is friday 6am, the one for the church at 10am.

there  is a request for people to be there in the night and in the morning to support them the moment the police will come.

the police did not go to galloo with the same message but it is possible that they will go there tomorrow too.

please spread this info.

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la police plannifier des qctions pour demain, vendredi

nous nous sommes appelés par des amis de la communauté syrienne qui vivent en dehors de l’église et les amis qui vivent à l’extérieur du BCMO disant que la police y ont passé aujourd’hui, jeudi, une fois de plus. La police a dit qu’ils vont venir demain, vendredi à détruire leur domicile.
L’ultimatum de quitter pour les personnes en face de la BSMO est vendredi 6 heures, l’une pour l’église à 10h.
il ya une demande pour les gens d’être là dans la nuit et le matin pour les soutenir au moment où la police viendra.

la police ne est pas allé Galloo avec le même message, mais il est possible qu’ils y aller demain aussi.
s’il vous plaît diffuser cette information.

Why we are not moving ; from residents of Galloo

The end of March has come. There are many people who have, under the threat of eviction and violence from the police, gone to the new camp around Jules Ferry. However there are some people left in some of the old living places who have no intention to move.

Here is a statement from some residents of Galloo about why they are not going to leave

– In the new place there are no walls to protect the people from wind, it is open without any protection from the rain. The squat we have now protects us from the weather

-The new place can be controlled by the police and they will be able to make restrictions on people’s movement

-Government will not provide toilets or electricity or building in the new place

-This place we have now is near to the prefecture, and other associations and organisations some of us need to see for making aslyum in France

-Some people demand asylum in France and they have applied for a home. They decide not to go until they get their homes

-The new place is far from the centre and far away from where we normally live in Calais

– There is too much garbage in the new place and its not hygenic, many people will get sick

– His industrial area and there is too much smoke because of fire and plastic being burned

– There is bad drainage and there is too much grass, and the place is for hunting may be dangerous for being shooting by chased gun

-Some organisations which give food here can’t go with us to the new place

-There is not enough space for everyone

-It will be difficult for us to adapt to the new place

The evictions have started / Les expulsions ont commencé

At the moment we are getting a lot of questions about when the evictions are going to happen or start. Lets be clear, they started a long time ago. Just because the police have not gone into the jungles and squats and destroyed them in a big violent media spectacle, they have been happening and will continue for a long time.

They started when the plans for the new day centre were announced. They continued when they announced that everybody has no choice but to move to the land outside the centre, and no other living spaces will be tolerated. They continued when many people claiming asylum in Calais were re-homed to other cities in order to reduce the numbers of people on the ground. They continued when daily police violence and arrests increased dramatically over the last few weeks, making sure that people were tired and exhausted and with no energy left to face the police. They continued when they Offi and the police continue to visit living places, counting down the days until the police are coming, making sure people feel like they have no choice but to go.

Pschologically and physically harassing people into moving to a place they don’t want to go is an eviction. Maybe this has not been an eviction that makes for a good news report the way you write them, there are no dramatic photos, but it is an eviction none the less.

Last week (as we have said before) the women from the Women’s House were moved, against their wishes, to a new house inside of the day centre. Over the weekend everyone from the camp Tioxide and the Afghan jungle in Bois Debruille moved to the new day centre. They did not do this by choice. They did this under threat of arrest, violence, and destructions of their homes.

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En ce moment nous recevons beaucoup de questions sur le moment où les expulsions vont se produire ou quand démarrer. Soyons clair- ils ont commencé il ya longtemps. Juste parce que la police n‘est pas allés dans les jungles et les squats pour les détruire de manière ultra spectaculaire, médiatique et surtout violente, il y’avait quand meme des expulsions et elles continueront encore pendant longtemps.

Les expulsion ont commencé lorsque le projet du nouveau centre de jour a été annoncés. Elles ont continué quand ils ont annoncé que toutes personnes n’aurait pas d’autre choix que d’aller sur le terrain autour du centre, et que aucun autre lieux de vie ne serait tolérée. Elles ont continué quand beaucoup de demandeur d’asile à Calais ont été placés, dans d’autres villes afin de réduire le nombre de personnes sur le terrain. Elles ont continué lorsque la violence et les arrestations au quotidien par la police ont considérablement augmenté pour faire un sorte que les gens étaient fatigués et épuisés et sans énergie pour faire face à la police. Elles ont continué quand l’Offi et la police ont visité regulièrement les lieux de vie, pour sassurer que les gens n’ont pas l’impression d’avoir d’autre choix que de quitter leurs lieux de vie.

D’harceler les gens psychologiquement et physiquement pour qu’ils se déplaçent à un endroit où ils ne veulent pas aller est une expulsion. Peut-être que cela n’a pas été une expulsion qui en fait un bon articledans le journals pour les journalistes qui vivent de la sensation- il n’y a pas de photos spectaculaires, mais ce mine de rien une expulsion.

La semaine dernière (comme nous l’avons déjà dit) les femmes de la Maison des femmes ont été déplacés, contre leur volonté, à une nouvelle maison à l’intérieur du centre de jour. Au cours du week-end tout le monde du campement Tioxide et de la jungle afghane à Bois Debruille s’est déplacé vers le nouveau centre de jour. Ils ne l‘ont pas fait par choix. Ils l’ont fait sous la menace d’arrestation, la violence et les destructions de leurs maisons.

NOUVELLE ALERTE : RISQUE D’EXPULSIONS VERS LE SOUDAN / / NEW THREATH: RISK OF EVICTION TO SUDAN

Lundi soir, une quinzaine d’exilés soudanais ont été arrêtés entre le squat Galou et le campement du fort Nieulay. Une partie d’entre eux ont été relâchés dans la nuit, mais huit ont été placés en rétention au CRA (Centre de rétention administrative) de Coquelles, à côté de Calais, avec une décision d’expulsion vers le Soudan.

Ils passeront demain matin à 8h au tribunal administratif de Lille, qui se prononcera sur leur recours contre leur placement en rétention et leur expulsion. La présence de soutiens est souhaitée (Tribunal Administratif, 143 Rue Jacquemars Giélée, 59800 Lille https://goo.gl/maps/STR2Q).

 

Prenez contact avec Préfet du Pas-de-Calais, Denis Robin, pour exiger l’arrêt des procédures d’expulsion vers Soudan.

par téléphone : 03.21.21.20.00

par fax : 03.21.55.30.30

sur le formulaire de la préfecture : http://www.pas-de-calais.gouv.fr/Contactez-nous

 

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NEW THREATH: RISK OF EVICTION TO SUDAN

Monday night, fifteen Sudanese exiles were arrested between the squat Galou and the camp of Fort Nieulay. Some of them were released in the night, but eight were detained at the ARC (Administrative Detention Centre) in Coquelles, near Calais, with an expulsion order to Sudan.

Tomorrow morning at 8 am they have their courtcase at the Lille administrative court, which will decide on their appeal against their detention and deportation. The presence of support is desired (Administrative Court, 143 Rue Jacquemars Giélée, 59800 Lille https://goo.gl/maps/STR2Q).

Get in contact with Prefect of Pas-de-Calais, Denis Robin, to demand no deportations to Sudan:

Telephone: 03.21.21.20.00

Fax: 03.21.55.30.30

on the form of the Prefecture: http://www.pas-de-calais.gouv.fr/Contactez-nous

A december in Calais

Winter has arrived with storms and rains. The big jungles and Galloo squat are still there; Tioxide-jungle with 2 restaurants, school, church, mosque and a shop. (see below news about forthcoming evictions). There are around 2000 people living rough in these spaces. The cold weather shelter is open occasionally with 350 sleeping spaces: it’s located far from the city and even when open it is not easily accessible due to the short opening hours.

December saw a high level of police violence concentrated on truck parkings and traffic jams leading to the Euro Tunnel and port. Attacks were sporadic and beatings seemingly random, aimed at discouraging migrants form trying for England and plainly expressing police racism. Police chased people into oncoming traffic, broke many limbs, and regularly used pepper spray at point blank range. They destroyed cameras when people attempted to film these illegal acts of violence.

When arrested from the streets near the jungles people were often taken to far away detention centers, such as Rennes, Metz, Nimes, Strasbourg and Paris. Some were even transported by plane to distant detention centers via a small airport in Calais.

The border entails various forms of violence. Migration controls violates women’s rights through racism and sexism in a way that these two systems of oppression are very much interlinked.

The hospital of Calais refuses to carry out abortions for migrants with an extremly cowardly explanation. The authorities based their decision on law that says that you cannot travel to France to have an abortion there, obviously that is not the case of the women at all. They systematically send women that could not proove an official residence in France to the hospital of Grande Synthe, that is 50 kilometers away. They claim that this is because they are concerned about the womens security, since abortion is supposed to be a specific medical intervention (although it is an intervention like any other with very low risks) they say it is to dangerous for the women to go back to the jungle afterwards. So yeah, they think staying pregnant against their own will is healthier and safer for the women.

After complaints having been made, the hospital should be called out by the ministry of health, since this racist, selective practice of carrying out basic health services is completely illegal!

However, not all was bleak. There were a few festive moments, namely a demo on the International Migrants’ day on the 18th, a couple of small Christmas parties in the jungles and a big New Years party at the Galloo Squat. The demo was organized by various associations as a response to the ‘Wall of Shame’, a large security fence recently installed by the UK government to increase security in the Ferry Port and previously used for the NATO summit in Cardiff. It was well-attended with over 1000 people. All of the parties were a great success with no violent police interventions or other incidents – just wild dancing to a very mixed play list and general merriment.

Next week on wednesday at 2pm (Centre Social Espace Fort Yves

2 B Rue D Ajaccio) self defense classes for women, trans* and queers will start ! These classes will hopefully take place regularly on a longterm basis- we are still looking for teachers that are happy to come around and hold one or several classes!

What to expect for January ?

An eviction notice, without a specific date being set has been placed in front of the sudanese jungle and the Bois Dubrulle (forest on the opposite side of Tioxide mainly inhabited by the afghan and ethiopian comunity) by the CRS. Several asylum seekers living in the spaces being threatened are ready to challenge the decision in court.

The last official announcements made by the prefecture claimed that there would be no forced evictions of any living spaces until the new day center opens. So when does it open? Food is supposed to be served there starting from mid-january and the original opening date of the center was set for the end of the month. But it seems like there are some additional works inside the building that take up more time than foreseen, so we don’t reall know at what point they actually wanna get going. Anyways we aren’t waiting for it with high expectations. The day center is part of a wider anti-migration strategy and comes along with other agreements between Natacha Bouchart and Cazeneuve with the UK (more policemen in Calais, closing-off of the port with the fence all around). Starting from the moment the daycenter opens, all other squats and jungles etc. are supposed to disappear and a ‘zero tolerance politic’ towards them has been announced. All services for migrants are supposed to be centralised in this space far from the city center, in order to concentrate the migrants outside of Calais. There will be no sleeping places for men, camping will be tolerated on the fields around. The outcome will be an even more official segregation between the habitants of the city and the migrants being locked out in the middle of nowhere.

Location of the center: https://www.google.fr/maps/place/Centre+A%C3%A9r%C3%A9+Jules+Ferry/@50.974514,1.903281,15z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x7dacbfa7f4b841b5

What a mess…

Today has seen an eviction decision concerning Fort Galloo by the court, and the return of fascist scumbags in town.

After a long juridicial procedure the judge has made a final decision on the squat cannot remain. As of yet there is no date for eviction set by the prefecture (lazy shitheads). Meanwhile no alternative provision for the migrants has been offered, the women’s shelter is already over capacity, and promise of a daycenter is nothing but an empty gesture.

As if this wasn’t enough we had to suffer Marine le Pig coming with her fascist cronies to show their faces in order to spread their politics of hate and to benefit from the frustrations in Calais. Whilst about 100 fash turned out to see the Queen of the Right, about 30 anti-fascists came out to disrupt Marine’s airtime on the TV/radio. As usual, the police protected the fascists which resulted in 1 anti-fa being punched in the stomach by a high ranking police officer and another had their finger broken by a cop.

At this time of humanitarian crisis which calls for political innovation we see nothing but the same tired reactionary, racist politics being facilitated by the police. In the end the only “solutions” that have materialised are 100 extra cops and a NATO security fence all in the name of securing the border for the UK. With over 2,000 migrants in Calais and winter on its way, perhaps now is the time to try opening the borders…?

A September in Calais

The Demonstrations

On September 5 a few hundred migrants demonstrated joyously in the streets of Calais to demand that they be able to cross to England and that police violence stop. They were also demonstrating against racism, for liberty and for respect for human rights.

On September 7, over 200 people, sympathisers of ‘sauvons calais’, held a demonstration with the mayor’s blessings on the square before the town hall. Speeches were given by various members of the ultra extreme right, there were fascists banners and fascist salutes in the assembly. An investigation will be opened. A counter demonstration was organized by the antifa in the region to protest against the fascist gathering. On the same day, the citizens wanted to organize a festive footbal match in the old city, the field in the old city where the migrants have played for 2 years already was declared forbidden by the town hall on that occasion. The tournament took place anyway on an appropriated field and it finished beautifully with a rap battle. Continuing on the same path since then, the town hall continues to forbid migrants from playing football on ‘it’s’ field, and sends officers accompanied by guard dogs to prevent people from occupying the field every Sunday. They have even shown an interest in filing a complaint against ‘illicit occupation’.

The Migrants

They continue to arrive in dozens to Calais and nearby… There are about 1500 in Calais. Some of them are staying at Tioxide, a squatted field, and in the surrounding dunes. The others are in squats or other fields around Calais. 300 are in ‘Fort Galloo’ , an enormous squat opened during the demonstration on July 10. Cohabitation is problematic due to stress, repression, regular menacing from the Calais fascists and exhaustion. The enforcement judge, the last judge to take a decision on the squat, after an initial decision to evict in August, authorized scientific experts to inquire and will reconvene on the 24 and 25 of September to give a final decision on October 17

Crossing and Repression

For several weeks the migrants have gathered en masse along the motorway at the entry to the port to try to clime onto lorries that are in traffic. They regularly try their luck entering the port en masse. A new CRS company has been called to try to stop them from crossing, and we’ve regularly heard stories of violence (gassing the inside of the trucks, beatings) and seen injuries among the migrants. There are countless instances of intimidation, police agression, injuries at the port, around the jungles and in the city.

The Extreme Right

Several activists have been subject to verbal and/or physical agression by individual fascists during the past weeks. Those noxious individuals are very present and don’t hesitate to provoke the humanitarians, the migrants or sympathizers with nazi salutes. At the beginning of the month a 15 year old girl was assaulted by fascists and given death threats. On 19/09 some individuals threw molotov cocktails at a squat which housed primarily Egyptians with children.Vigilance in the face of these provocations adds a new stress that we don’t really need.

The Game FR/UK

A new UK-Franco Joint Declaration has been made. They decided together to create a ‘common fund in the framework of an agreement on the struggle against clandestine immigration at the Calais port’ which ‘would allow to wind down the crisis that has plagued the migration question in Calais for several years’ : Translation : Re-inforce the borders, increase repression, coordinate with third countries to facilitate expulsions… plus a tiny bit of humanity so as not to lose face !

COMME EN 2009, DANS LE DÉSORDRE

The situation is become equally difficult to manage in Calais for the activists, the militants, the humanitarians, the migrants and… the CRS !

Calais is the mirror of what happens at all the borders to Europe : Mellila, Lampedusa, Greece, Tunisia, Bulgaria…….

Thousands of people try to reach Europe, a place of peace and serenity for them. Even if the hospitality in Europe and the UK is problematic, they know that they won’t die of hunger there and they won’t be hit by bombs. And Europe doesn’t see where the problem is and they ban crossing while constructing a fortress, an army, walls, continuing to send arms to rebels or non rebels, crying danger about one or another ‘terrorist’ group and continuing to empty the African soil of all of its riches.

On the Programme in the Following Weeks :

Increased difficulties for migrants in crossing, growing tensions everywhere, evictions of places of living, deportations en masse to countries of transit or departure…… and new arrivals of migrants from Italy, Choucha, Spain, Greece….

Already on 23/09/2014 in Paris: a hundred people, mostly Sudanese and Eritrean, were stopped in a raid at pont de la Chapelle at 6 :30 and taken to the police station.

http://paris-luttes.info/raffle-d-une-centaine-de-migrants?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

The Work on Our Plates:

Today there are 4 of us on the ground in Calais, that doesn’t help us much to meet the high challenges that are presented to us. There is also a lot of work to do surrounding spreading information to different communities on the repressive decisions that have been taken, on constructive tools on the growing risks of deportation, for example : France successfully deported a Sudanese person to Sudan on September 17 and has been reserving flights to Khartoum since the start of the summer.

Lettre des habitant.e.s du squat fort Galoo/letter from the inhabitants of the squat fort Galoo

” Monsieur, Madame,

Nous sommes les réfugiés qui squattons cet endroit et nous sommes de différentes nationalités. Nous vous demandons de ne pas faire preuve d’une violence sadique contre nous et de ne pas nous expulser de cet espace sans nous offrir des solutions dignes.

Nous avons fui nos pays à cause de l’injustice, des guerres, de la dictature, du nettoyage ethnique, de la pauvreté, des emprisonnements arbitraires, des persécutions religieuses, des régimes théocratiques qui nous empêchent de jouir de la liberté de croyance et d’opinion : par exemple, au Soudan, boire une bière vous expose à 40 coups de fouet. Nous souffrons de la marginalisation dans nos pays parce-que nous combattons l’oppression de nos gouvernements et par conséquent, nous n’avons pas accès aux soins, aux écoles, nous n’avons accès à rien.

Nous vous demandons maintenant une protection en tant qu’être humain et nous ne voulons pas que notre situation soit utilisée à des fins de propagande politique. Nous demandons au gouvernement, aux associations humanitaires, aux médias, à la population, de nous soutenir et d’être à nos côtés.

Si nous demandons l’asile en France, nous allons devoir attendre de nombreux mois avant d’avoir accès à un abri, alors qu’en Angleterre, en Allemagne, en Hollande, nous avons accès à une maison, à l’école, à de la nourriture, en somme à des conditions de vie dignes. La France nous laisse à la rue pour plus de souffrance.

Nous voulons que la France donne de bonnes conditions de vie aux réfugiés, et s’ils ne peuvent pas faire cela, ils doivent ouvrir les frontières et laisser les personnes passer en Angleterre. Beaucoup de réfugiés qui ont essayé de se rendre là-bas en sont morts, écrasés sous les roues d’un train, d’un camion, d’un bus. Un migrant soudanais qui essayait de rejoindre l’Angleterre caché sur le toit d’un train a été coupé en deux par un pylone électrique, beaucoup d’autres sont morts sous les roues d’un camion ou à l’intérieur de ces derniers qui sont parfois des camions frigorifiques. “

Les habitants et habitantes du 10 impasse des Salines, Calais.

English version :

Mr, Mrs,

We are the refugees who squat this place and we are from different nationalities. We demand you not to use sadistic violence against us and not to make us go out of this place without any dignified solution.

We ran away from our countries because of injustice, war, dictatorship, ethnic cleansig, poverty, arbitrary imprisonment, religious persecution, theocracy which prevent us from believing in what we want : for example, in Sudan, if you drink a beer you can be whiped 40 times. We suffer from marginalisation in our countries because we fight the opression of our government and because of this we don’t have access to medical care, to school, we don’t have access to anything.

We request now protection as human beings and we don’t want our situation to be used as political propaganda. We ask the government, the humanitarian associations, the people, the media, to support us and to stand with us.

If we ask for asylum in France, they will make us wait many months before we can have access to a a shelter, whereas in England, in Germany, in Holland, they give us a house, we have access to school, to proper food and dignified conditions of life. France leaves us in the streets for more suffering.

We want France to give good living conditions to the refugee and if they can’t do this, they have to open the borders and to let people go to England. Many persones who tried to go to England died from it, crushed under the train, the trucks of the buses. One sudanese migrant who was trying to reach england hiden on the roof of a train got divided apart by an electric pylone, many other ones died under the wheels or inside the freezer of a truck.”

The inhabitants of the squat 10 impasse des Salines, Calais

Communiqué de presse occupation Fort Galoo/ Press release occupation fort Galoo

 

Forteresse Heure Hope ?

Depuis le 28 mai à Calais, les opérations policières violentes et absurdes contre la population migrante de passage se sont succédées : démantèlement de l’ensemble des espaces de vie, rafles, mises en rétention, destruction du matériel humanitaire, etc… Les exilés ont donc été acculés dans les espaces périphériques de la ville où ils sont condamnés à subir un processus d’invisibilisation et sont en proie au harcèlement policier, à une traque quotidienne, à une lutte permanente pour l’accès à des besoins élémentaires tels que la nourriture, la santé, l’hygiène, la sécurité.

Un ensemble d’individus, de collectifs, d’associations ont décidé de ne pas accepter cette situation et de s’opposer à cette réponse étatique purement répressive en construisant ensemble un espace protégé où l’accès à un minimum de dignité et de sécurité ne serait pas l’objet d’un combat acharné. Un lieu d’expérimentation de vie en commun qui permettrait de mettre l’État devant ses responsabilités en montrant que l’accueil et l’hospitalité ne se limitent pas aux centres de rétention et aux reconduites à la frontière.

Ainsi, depuis le 12 juillet, l’ancien site industriel Vandamme, situé 10 impasse des Salines à Calais, est revenu à la vie. C’est aujourd’hui une centaine de personnes sans-abris, de multiples nationalités, de passage ou non, qui y vivent, et plusieurs centaines d’autres qui le fréquentent pour une tasse de thé, un cours de français, un repas collectif, un jeu de cartes, une douche, une coupe de cheveux , un rasage de près…etc. Plusieurs centaines d’habitant.e.s, de soutiens de multiples horizons, de Calaisien.ne.s curieux qui, chaque jour, animent cet endroit, profitent et construisent un espace de repos et de socialisation multiculturel à l’abri de la violence de la rue, du harcèlement policier, de la traque, du délit de faciès, etc….

Aujourd’hui, l’ultimatum est tombé, « la justice » a tranché : les habitant.e.s du lieu ont 10 jours pour faire leurs bagages et partir. Mais partir où ? C’est la question qui est sur toutes les lèvres des occupant.e.s qui, à ce jour, refusent ce départ forcé et affirment vouloir rester, résister à cet ultimatum si aucune solution d’hébergement digne de leur est proposée. Actuellement, aucune solution de sortie n’a été avancée, la seule réponse étant, comme d’habitude, une décision d’expulsion avec remise à la rue des personnes. Cette mise en danger délibérée et répétée d’autrui ne doit pas être acceptée et ne le sera pas par les habitant.e.s et leurs soutiens qui sont déterminé.e.s à rester si d’autres espaces de vie dignes, assurant la sécurité et le respect de la population migrante dans le passage et des sans abris ne leur sont pas proposés.

Nous avons conscience que ce n’est pas au propriétaire Vandamme qu’incombe la responsabilité de trouver des solutions à cet état d’urgence humanitaire prolongé dans lequel l’État, la mairie et leurs complices ont plongé Calais, mais nous lui demandons de prendre en considération les spécificités de cette occupation. Nous appelons le gouvernement, le préfet, la mairie, à ne pas céder une fois de plus à la tentation du tout répressif et à travailler sur une solution de sortie afin d’accueillir dignement cette population sans abris qui est aujourd’hui hébergée dans des squats faute de toute autre forme de réponse étatique. Nous rappelons au propriétaire et aux autorités que la procédure d’expulsion de ce site était fondée, pour le propriétaire, sur le caractère d’extrême dangerosité de l’endroit. Le recours à la force publique afin de vider le lieux de ses occupan.t.e.s nous semble donc une opération aussi absurde que dangereuse. Avant d’en arriver à envisager la mise en danger d’autrui comme unique solution, il nous semble pertinent, dans l’intérêt de tous et toutes, qu’une autre forme de réponse soit discutée.

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