• According to Cimade, two suicide attempts took place in less than a week a few days ago at the administrative detention center in Rennes.

  • The association believes that these very serious acts are “never taken into account by the administration”.

Located near the airport, the Rennes administrative detention center (CRA) is one of 25 centers in France where migrants are detained while awaiting deportation.

It is between its fenced and barbed wire walls that two dramas have been tied in recent days with two suicide attempts in less than a week, according to Cimade.

On January 7, a Chinese national informed of his imminent deportation would have cut his veins.

“In France since 2003, he says he is exhausted by the relentlessness of the prefecture, and by the criminalization of which he is the object”, indicates the association.

Four days later, an Algerian national would also have tried to end his life at the Rennes CRA.

During a previous placement in the administrative detention center of Oissel (Seine-Maritime), the latter had already attempted suicide.

He was subsequently seen by a psychologist.

“Despite this information, which the prefecture was aware of, he was again locked up in Rennes, denounces Cimade.

Before committing this desperate gesture, he had repeatedly told us of his distress in the face of his confinement.

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“Very frequent” desperate acts in CRAs

Intervening in eight detention centers to support people locked up and “help them exercise their rights”, the association regularly denounces the conditions of confinement of migrants in “those prisons which do not speak their name”.



According to Cimade, desperate acts and gestures of self-harm are also “very frequent” in administrative detention centers.

Very serious acts which are however "never taken into account by the administration which locks up at all costs very fragile people psychologically in detention", she believes.

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