• Mohamed Bangoura, alias Falmarès, is a young migrant poet threatened with deportation.

  • The marks of support are flocking to demand the regularization of the young man, who has already published several collections.

He says he began to write to “relieve himself” but in recent days, the words he has received have helped him especially to keep hope. Since this weekend, the mobilization has grown around Falmarès, a young Nantes poet who also lived in Brittany, now threatened with expulsion. Last week, this 19-year-old Guinean called Mohamed Bangoura in the civil case reported having received from the Loire-Atlantique prefecture an obligation to leave French territory (OQTF) within a month. An “absurd” and “unfair” decision that motivated her to start a hunger strike, he announced on Facebook.

Since then, the marks of support, in particular of the associative world and of the culture, flock to support the young man, some of his texts, very noticed, even published in several collections, baptized

Soulagements

(ed. Les Mandarines).

Two candidates in the regional elections of Pays-de-la-Loire, Matthieu Orphelin (environmentalist) and Guillaume Garot (PS), were also moved by the case of the one who left his country in 2017, and challenged the prefect.

In a tweet, the president of Semitan did the same, since in addition to being a poet, Mohamed is "a serious apprentice of the maintenance workshops of the TAN, which is intended for the preparation of a BTS in alternation", writes Pascal Bolo.

The word falmarès # DONNERLEMAX # poetry # falmarès pic.twitter.com/G68WE7jLHV

- Falmarès (@ Falmars1) April 25, 2021

Its publisher launches a petition

Launched by its publisher, a petition collected this Monday afternoon more than 3,200 signatures.

She asks for the young man to be regularized and recalls that Falmarès was appointed “ambassador of peace” by a Franco-Swiss association but also that he has just been selected to be part of the jury for the “Etonnants Voyageurs” festival in Saint -Malo.

“There are other anonymous Falmarès, adds Gaspard Norrito, president of the young man's support committee, joined by

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We ask the prefect that the other OQTFs unfairly decided in recent times are also re-examined.

“Asked, the prefecture of Loire-Atlantique has not yet answered the questions of

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  • Poetry

  • Expulsion

  • Guinea

  • Migrants

  • Nantes