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

    The administrative court ordered it.

  • "Given the fact that the failure of the mayor of Strasbourg seriously undermines human dignity, the judge in chambers orders him to evacuate the camp within three days," said the administrative court.

  • The city of Strasbourg has announced that it will not appeal "the court decision which orders it to evacuate the camp and to seize the services of the State to obtain its assistance".

    "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 nevertheless essential to human dignity", she added.

The situation lasted for months.

Since last spring, a migrant camp had taken place on the Place de l'Étoile, almost in the center of Strasbourg.

With, behind this installation, a real showdown between the environmentalist mayor of the Alsatian capital and the prefect of Bas-Rhin.

Justice finally agreed with the second.

The administrative court on Friday ordered the city to evacuate the camp "under unsanitary and indecent conditions", at the request of the state representative.

"Given the fact that the failure of the mayor of Strasbourg seriously undermines human dignity, the judge in chambers orders him to evacuate the camp within three days," said the local administrative court in a press release. .



"Given the unsanitary and indecent conditions in which the people living in the camp, including children, live, the judge considered that the legality of the decision of the mayor of Strasbourg was seriously questionable", continued the court, seized in summary proceedings by the prefecture of Bas-Rhin.

Located in the Parc de l'Étoile, under the windows of the town hall, the camp has been the subject of several battles in recent months between the ecologist, Jeanne Barseghian and the prefect of Bas-Rhin, Josiane Chevalier.

The latter argued that it was up to the town hall, owner of the land, to request the evacuation of the irregular camp to justice.

What Jeanne Barseghian had always refused to do, reproaching the State for not assuming its responsibilities in terms of reception.

Up to 200 people per day

Some days, up to 200 people, many of them from Georgia, Albania and Macedonia, followed one another on the spot, according to associations coming to their aid.

The town hall had opened a gymnasium in mid-September to shelter certain migrants.

Installed in tents since the spring, with a brief interruption to make way for the fireworks of July 14, some of the families camping on site have to live with rats, and the temperatures are lower and lower.

At the start of the evening, the city of Strasbourg announced in a brief press release that it would not appeal "the court decision ordering it to evacuate the camp and to seize the services of the State to obtain its assistance". .

"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 nevertheless essential to human dignity", she added.

"Justice has forcefully recalled the law and legality in this case", welcomed for his part the opposition municipal councilor (Horizons), Pierre Jakubowicz, in a press release, denouncing the "unconsciousness" of the town hall. , even his "cynicism", in his management of the file.

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