Nearly fifty men locked up in the administrative detention center (CRA) of Mesnil-Amelot (Seine-et-Marne) spent the night from Saturday to Sunday in the building courtyard to denounce "poor sanitary conditions" and demand their release, we learned from concordant sources.
“There are 47 men detained at CRA who leave prison. They are in an irregular situation ”, indicates the prefecture of Seine-et-Marne. The administrative detention center is a place where migrants awaiting expulsion are locked up. The detainees returned to their building after police intervention on Sunday afternoon, according to the prefecture.
Panic
In a joint press release, undocumented migrants said they had suffered "baton blows and tear gas". Claims that the prefecture disputes. Locked up since the start of confinement, detainees say they are "in a panic" and denounce "poor sanitary conditions". "One of us was released a few days ago on suspicion of Covid-19." On site, they indicate that they have "neither masks nor hydroalcoholic gel".
The Seine-et-Marne prefecture specifies that "no case of Covid-19" has been detected in Mesnil-Amelot which is the largest CRA in France, located a few hundred meters from the runways of the airport of Roissy-Charles de Gaulle. Reached by phone, Yousri, one of the detainees, was released from Fresnes prison (Val-de-Marne) on March 7. The young man of Tunisian nationality was notified of an obligation to leave French territory.
"They must free us"
“They can't fire us because there are no planes so they have to free us. We don't want to get the coronavirus locked up, ”said Yousri, who“ went on a hunger strike on Saturday ”. A first case of Covid-19 was detected in an ARC, that of Paris-Vincennes, where 54 people are still locked up. In recent weeks, the continuation of ARC activity has been the subject of a standoff between the government and defenders of migrants.
The Council of State ruled on the debate at the end of March, deciding that these establishments could remain open, judging that continued detention is not a "factor in the evolution of the epidemic". Over the past month, the CRAs have gradually emptied, prompted by decisions by judges to release them.
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