The Lyon detention center.

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A hunger strike lasting more than two weeks to defend its future, a petition signed by more than 35,800 people.

Despite the mobilization born several weeks ago in Haute-Loire to obtain the regularization of Madama, this young Malian living in Puy-en-Velay was taken this Tuesday to the administrative detention center in Lyon, before being expelled.

"We were told at the very end of the day that Madama was on her way to Lyon at the administrative detention center in Lyon with a view to deportation on the decision of the prefect of Haute-Loire," Véronique de Marconnay said on Tuesday. teacher who has housed the young Malian for two years in Puy-en-Velay.

"We are still in shock, it's a nightmare for us," adds the one whose companion went on a hunger strike for more than two weeks in February to support the boy.

This Tuesday morning, 19-year-old Madama Diawara was summoned by the Air and Border police to Gerzat (Puy-de-Dôme) and "taken into custody for using false documents", according to Véronique de Marconnay.

"My companion and I were questioned separately in open hearing," she added.

"The case is ongoing," said a spokesman for the Air and Border police on Tuesday, who declined to give more information.

“I suppose he had an obligation to leave French territory.

We will appeal tomorrow, ”explains Véronique de Marconnay.

"We do not give up even if we have received a blow today".

The residence permit and work permit refused by the prefecture

Madama Diawara, a young 19-year-old Malian, was welcomed in December 2018 by the Altiligérien couple after crossing the Mediterranean and then the Alps to Briançon.

“At barely 16, he fled the misery of his native village, he crossed the desert, then crossed the sea in a canoe, all of the occupants of which did not survive.

He crossed part of the Alps on foot, pursued by the dogs of the gendarmes, fear in the belly ”, tells the couple who welcomed him, in the petition launched to obtain his regularization.

He had been enrolled in an establishment to obtain a CAP for agricultural worker and had completed a first internship with a couple of breeders who had offered him an apprenticeship contract.

But the prefecture of Haute-Loire refused to issue the work permit and the residence permit necessary for the young man, major since January 2020, questioning the authenticity of his birth certificate.

On February 25, a new birth certificate was provided to the prefecture, which had undertaken to have it appraised quickly by the Air and Border police.

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