Travelers are victims of "systemic discrimination", warns the Defender of Rights (DDD), Claire Hédon in a report published this Wednesday, which makes a series of 17 recommendations to fight against "permanent" discrimination in housing, access to education or health.

"The shortcomings in terms of equipment and access to drinking water, the distance from public services and in particular schools, as well as exposure to environmental risks worsen the situation", underlines the Defender of Rights in this document. baptized "'' Gens du voyage '': removing obstacles to rights".

According to this report, the lack of recognition of the caravan as a full-fledged accommodation would be the source of discrimination in many areas: domicile, place of taxation, opening of a right to housing assistance ( APL), access to credit and insurance, protection against the suspension of fluids and water in winter or obtaining custody rights for a child.

Claire Hédon notes that “the quantitative and qualitative reception objectives provided for by the law of July 5, 2000 have still not been achieved, which exposes travelers to frequent expulsions”.

Claire Hédon asks Travelers to escalate discrimination

These reception conditions for Travelers "violate the fundamental right to suitable accommodation," warns the DDD.

Claire Hédon also denounces the "refusal of illegal schooling" emanating from certain local authorities and recalls that the latter must "stop using the administrative disputes which oppose them to families living on illicitly occupied land to slow down, prevent, or even prohibit the children's access to school ”.

Finally, in view of the minimal number of appeals, the DDD urges Travelers and the associations concerned to seize it more in order to assert their rights.

This report echoes that of the Observatory for the Rights of Itinerant Citizens (ODCI) published last month which warned about "exclusion" and "unworthy" living conditions of travelers in France.

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