Only two per cent of hundreds of Calais migrants arrested and sent to detention centres in recent weeks have been deported, according to a top French prison watchdog, which denounced “grave breaches of their fundamental rights”.
In a damning indictment of France’s handling of the migrant crisis in the northern port town, the country’s prison watchdog, CGLPL, accused the government of arresting migrants not to deport them but simply to cut their numbers in Calais – a procedure that it said had no legal basis.
Since October, it said, “the placement in administrative detention is used not with the aim of returning (migrants) to their countries of origin but with the sole aim of easing congestion in Calais".
At one point Calais housed up to 6,000 migrants in squalid camps.
Val says A report by Henry Samuel in the Telegraph. My favourite Telegraph reporter Henry Samuel who reports on France. The gendarmes have been picking up refugees and taking them around France and dumping them in deportation centres around the country. They hold them for 5 days and then let them out. The refugees then find their way back to Calais. This is one of the reasons refugees want to stay grouped in Calais they are frightened of being separated from family members and of course their hearts are set on getting to the UK. Seems such a pointless thing to do and a waste of money and resources.
We still have not got our refugees here in St. Antonin. The first hold up was because of Paris, then a delay in getting a paid animatrice, who knows what the problem is now ? Comments to taglines82@gmail.com
