“Our (municipal) resources are not enough to respond to this great distress and this humanitarian crisis. liability action against the state, because of this failure,” she said at a press conference.
She did not give a date for the referral to the court, obviously the administrative court (TA), explaining that it would take place "as soon as possible".
“We are really coming to the end of a model. France is experiencing an unprecedented humanitarian crisis with, in all the major French cities, hundreds of people, including very vulnerable, sick people, children, who are on the street in the cold, without rights, without access to care, in misery", continued the elected ecologist.
"Strasbourg is no exception to the rule", she added, inviting "all elected officials" and "all associations" who would like to "join this action for liability against the State".
"I remind you all the same that one of Emmanuel Macron's first promises in 2017 was that at the end (of that same year), there would be no one left on the street. five and a half years later, of course, this promise has absolutely not been kept,” said Ms. Barseghian.
The mayor of the Alsatian capital was speaking as a migrant camp, located in the city center and which counted up to 200 people, many from Georgia, Albania and Macedonia, was about to go. to be dismantled, after the decision on Friday of the TA of Strasbourg which ordered the municipality to evacuate it, at the request of the prefecture of Bas-Rhin.
On Monday, the latter indicated in a press release that it had granted the town hall the assistance of the police for this evacuation.
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