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Since January 2019, the maximum duration of detention has doubled from 45 to 90 days (illustration). BERTRAND LANGLOIS / AFP

Dozens of people mobilized this Sunday, March 3 in Paris to denounce the asylum-immigration law that doubles the length of detention, from 45 to 90 days, and living conditions deemed intolerable.

Gathered in the forecourt of the North Station, the demonstrators brandish a white sheet. " Solidarity with refugees in detention centers ", is it inscribed. All came to protest against the poor reception conditions reserved for migrants. " In this center, the food is not good. And if you get sick there, it's absolute hell, "says Pikolé Mia Mi, a 32-year-old undocumented.

" A scandal of locking up people who did nothing "

In the procession, many groups of refugees support are present to make their case heard. This is the case of Louise, the collective La Chapelle Debout. " Globally, we denounce the hyper-repressive policies that are increasingly criminalizing foreigners, including undocumented migrants. What we are denouncing is the detention centers that are a bit of the cornerstone of these policies. "

Surrounded by police on the alert, people of all ages express their indignation. " It is already a scandal to shut up people who have done nothing, who are innocent, who are in distress, who are fleeing untenable situations. What's more, we're locked up like criminals, it's unbearable, "says Jeanne, a retired. Since early January, more than a hundred foreigners in administrative detention centers have gone on hunger strike.

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