• After leaving the Gayeulles camp in Rennes, around 70 migrants found refuge in a center managed by a scouting association, in Thorigné-Fouillard.

  • But the mayor of the town took an order closing the place and ordered its evacuation by the end of the week.

  • About thirty mayors of the Rennes metropolitan area call on the State to “take up its responsibilities” in order to welcome and shelter these migrants.

The winter break will begin on Monday, everywhere in France. But, in Rennes, no one yet knows where the migrants who have occupied a makeshift camp in the Gayeulles park for several weeks will be received. Emptied of its occupants for several days already, the camp did not need to be evacuated as ordered by a decision of the administrative court on October 22. In the meantime, associations supporting exiled people tried to occupy the former Faux-Pont school ten days ago to accommodate families, but the evacuation did not drag on.

Other people have also found refuge since the beginning of the month in a center provided by the Girl Scouts and the Pathfinders of France, in Thorigné-Fouillard, on the outskirts of Rennes.

They are now 70 to be accommodated in this forestry center belonging to this scout association.

But for how long ?

Friday, the mayor of the town issued an order closing the premises "after the unfavorable opinion of the safety committee".

As a result, the migrants will have to leave the area "by the end of the week" or else they will be forcibly evacuated.

A leisure center soon requisitioned?

A decision that aroused anger in the ranks of the association. "By this municipal decree, the mayor contravenes the freedom of an association actor to exercise his simplest and most fundamental right to respond to a human emergency," she said in a press release. On the ground, the activists do not hide their annoyance either. “If the center is evacuated, what's going on behind it? », Asks Camille, a volunteer with the association A roof is a right. "We're not going to put up tents anyway!" », She indignantly.

The solution could be through the requisition by the State of the Robert-Launay leisure center made available by the city of Rennes.

"But we do not know more, the file drags on and we have to tinker with solutions in the meantime," said the volunteer.

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, the Ille-et-Vilaine prefecture declined to comment.

"An untenable situation", according to some thirty elected officials of the metropolis

It is in this context that about thirty mayors of the metropolis, overwhelmingly socialists, signed a platform on Tuesday to ask the state "to take its responsibilities". "For too many years, the question of the reception, shelter and treatment of the administrative and social situation of migrants on the territory of the Rennes metropolitan area, as elsewhere in our country, has run counter to our humanist principles. ", They indicate, estimating that the last events" are unfortunately a new illustration of an untenable situation ".

Although this falls under the “exclusive” powers of the State, the elected officials claim to have taken their part in protecting many families.

But "we cannot take the place of the State in matters of migration policy," they continue.

Only he can act, but he has chosen to adopt a wait-and-see position ”.

They claim, at the conclusion of their forum, "the application of the Valls circular of 2012 in order to immediately regularize the people and families who live in our municipalities and whose integration into the social fabric we, elected officials, can testify to".

Elected officials call on the State "to organize and take charge of emergency accommodation for exiled people, taking into account their real vulnerability, in accordance with the laws of our Republic".

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