Migration tensions between London and Paris
Audio 19:30
Afghan refugees at London airport, August 26, 2021 (Illustrative image) © AFP - DOMINIC LIPINSKI
By: Juliette Gheerbrant Follow
21 mins
The victory of the Taliban in Afghanistan last month (August 2021) raises the question of the reception of refugees within the EU, but also in Turkey.
And the tensions reverberate from border to border.
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126 migrants were rescued at sea between France and England
and brought back to France by the navy
last weekend, and during the week more than 1,000 people had crossed the Channel to the English coast.
A worrying situation:
the authorities have counted 11 dead since the start of these crossings.
The tone has risen between London and Paris,
and the British are threatening to turn back the makeshift boats.
Details in London from Marie Billon.
A new wall in Europe
.
He will separate Poland from Belarus.
The ultra-conservative Polish government of Mateusz Morawiecki ordered its construction
to ban the arrival of Middle Eastern migrants passing through Minsk
. A state of emergency has even been declared in nearly 200 Polish border localities, which in particular prohibits their access to the media, to the chagrin of humanitarian workers.
In Warsaw, the explanations of Damien Simonart.
Turkey hosts nearly 3,700,000 Syrians
, notably following an agreement with Brussels.
Anticipating a possible influx of Afghan refugees fleeing the mullahs, the Turkish authorities have stepped up arrests in recent weeks,
pushing hundreds of thousands of illegal Afghans to live in fear. And
they target in particular Afghan ragpickers, very numerous in Istanbul. Report, Anne Andlauer.
In Norway,
Labor won the legislative after a campaign dominated by the issue of the climate and the future of oil, the country's great wealth
. Labor Jonas Garh Store is expected to become the next Prime Minister
, but depending on the final results
he will have to deal with certain parties in favor of the exit from hydrocarbons. The subject is particularly sensitive in Stavanger, the oil capital
on the southwest coast of the country.
Report by Anne-Françoise Hivert.
No respite for opponents in Belarus: Maria Kolesnikova, 39 - a great figure in the protest of the summer of 2020 - was sentenced to 10 years in prison on September 6, 2021
, in particular for "conspiracy to seize the to be able to".
She had refused to leave her country, although she was fully aware of the risks involved.
The sentence was imposed on him after a hearing almost behind closed doors.
A portrait signed Carlotta Morteo
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