They responded to the invitation of the collective "Appel d'air", created a month ago following the dismantling of one of the last settlements of migrants in Calais.
Some 150 associative and migrant activists gathered Sunday in Calais to denounce "the tightening of the repressive policy", the "institutional mistreatment" and the "police violence" which are "victims", according to them, the asylum seekers, has noted an AFP journalist.
About forty migrants. Waving rainbow flags, symbols of peace, or "Welcome refugees" banners, the demonstrators joined at 14 o'clock Place d'Armes, in Calais and took the floor in turn, calmly. Among them were some 40 migrants, including Eritreans, Ethiopians and Iranians. All responded to the invitation of the collective "Appel d'air", created a month ago following the dismantling of one of the last settlements of migrants of Calais, in the industrial area of the Dunes.
"In Calais, the policy towards the exiled has hardened for a month, with continued harassment and increased police violence, as well as daily evictions.Communities are hunted (...) the tents thrown into the water , seizures, destroyed and the associations deplore several serious wounded following these police operations ", had denounced this collective in its call to protest. The group also regrets "the Dublin III regulation (decried text that defines which country is responsible for the processing of an asylum application) and its administrative absurdity, the urban development 'antimigrants', fences, walls and barbed wire" installed around Calais and the "institutional and state mistreatment", which push, according to him, the migrants to "put themselves always more in danger to cross the border".
"I keep trying to pass." "We want to show the violence" made to the exiles, "we who are dublin and today stranded in Calais", without possibility to join the United Kingdom, told AFP Sherifo, a 26-year-old Eritrean "blocked" for seven months in Calais after passing through Italy. "I do not want to try to go to England by boat, it's too expensive and too dangerous, I'm still trying to get into a truck, but without success," he said. "The Brexit will not stop us from passing but the border has become deadly and we want Europe to welcome us, give us papers and work," said Abe, also Eritrean.
At the beginning of March, "a hundred people organized themselves to try to cross over to England collectively on board a ferry.On March 9, a 20-year-old died in a freight truck," he said. collective in its press release.