• The migrant camp set up since last spring at Place de l'Étoile in Strasbourg will soon be evacuated.

  • The city of Strasbourg had announced that it would not appeal the court decision but recalls that "this judgment does not rule on the sheltering of the men, women and children present on the site of the Parc de l'Etoile. , a question that is essential to human dignity”.

  • During a press conference on Monday morning, the environmentalist mayor of Strasbourg Jeanne Barseghian announced that she wanted to “bring a liability action against the State for inaction and failure to shelter people”.

The passes of arms continue between the State and the city of Strasbourg.

This Monday morning, the Bas-Rhin prefecture indicated in a press release that it "granted the assistance of the police" to evacuate the migrant camp from Place de l'Étoile.

A response given at the request of the environmental mayor Jeanne Barseghian, forced by the administrative court of Strasbourg to cooperate with the services of the State and ordering the evacuation of the camp.

Recall that the judge in chambers had estimated Friday evening, following the refusal of the mayor of Strasbourg to evacuate the camp when the living conditions there are disastrous, that "the legality" of his decision "was seriously questionable".

The judge in chambers had therefore enjoined, "given the fact that the failure of the mayor of Strasbourg seriously undermines human dignity", to evacuate the camp within three days.

In the wake of this Monday morning, Jeanne Barseghian announced at a press conference that she wanted to bring “a liability action against the State for inaction and failure to shelter people”.

An action which will “probably” be brought “very soon before the administrative court”, indicates the mayor without being able to give more details.

The environmentalist mayor thus calls for “permanent shelter for evacuees”.

The mayor calls "all elected officials and associations who are affected by this state failure, which means that the difficulties come back to the communities and do not have the means to assume them, to also bring civil action", with Strasbourg.

"Not a clean-up operation"

While the city was asked by the prefect Josiane Chevalier "to proceed with the removal of the tents and the cleaning of the site as soon as the evacuation of the people has been carried out", the mayor insisted that the evacuation of the camp "is not just a clean-up operation".

The judgment of the administrative court “does not respond in any way” to the question of sheltering people.

"This is also a reason why I will not appeal this judgment because it does not ask and does not answer the right question," continues the mayor.

He speaks of an evacuation, but not of the sheltering of people and the responsibility of the State.

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Stressing in passing that many children are present on this camp, the elected environmentalist notes above all "the end of a model".

Ensures that France is experiencing "a humanitarian crisis", with many people "very vulnerable, sick, who are on the street, without rights, without recourse" and condemns "the government's migration policy".

"Like other French cities, Strasbourg is no exception to the rule", attests the mayor who assures that Germany, which "yet welcomes a greater number of migrants", does not encounter these problems "of inhuman camps". .

At the same time, the mayor hopes to shelter all the people who occupy “less visible and less media-friendly” camps, located all around the city.



For the time being, Jeanne Barseghian attests that she does not "know anything" about the actual care of the migrants from the camp which must be evacuated.

People probably brought back "again to the center of Bouxwiller before finding themselves once again without a solution and then on the street", says the mayor.

The latter also wanted to recall the limits with which the city was confronted: "We are at the end of our human and financial capacities, our means are not enough to respond to this great distress".

Pending an evacuation that could happen "in the next 24 hours", according to the elected.

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