Migrants: in Calais, the mediator proposes the establishment of a "social diagnosis"

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Didier Leschi, director of the French Office for Immigration and Integration (OFII), sent on a mediation mission to Calais by the government, on October 28, 2021 in Calais.

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By: Charlotte Derouin

The boss of the French Office for Immigration and Integration, Didier Leschi, sent on a mediation mission to Calais by the government, yesterday met the priest and the two activists on hunger strike in support of migrants .

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Mr. Leschi was to meet this Thursday with associations of aid to migrants.

According to his associations, the situation of some 1,500 migrants present in Calais is inhuman, with evictions from their camps several times a week, and the confiscation of their tents and their personal effects.

The boss of the OFII was the guest of RFI at the microphone of Marie Casadebaig.

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