Question 33218 — refugees and stateless persons

Summary

Ms. Cécile Delpirou alerts the Minister of the Interior to the worrying situation in which people exiled in Calais find themselves, a situation amplified since the ban, by prefectural decree, on the distribution of meals and water to migrants by associations not mandated by the State. She recalls that, despite the regularity of expulsions motivated by the legitimate concern for maintaining public order and neighborhood tranquility, these prove to be ineffective, on the one hand because the number of people exiled to Calais remains stable, and on the other hand because they have the effect of pushing people to wander more and more in the city center. She also underlines that the multiplication of almost daily expulsions and the confiscation of tents and their personal property has the corollary of the deterioration of the living conditions of exiled people, many of whom many are families, single women with young children, or even unaccompanied minors. If the previous places where exiled people lived are made impassable, basic services are also often reduced, which does not allow exiled people to access them in a stable manner. She adds that, according to the associations, the prefectural decree of September 10, 2020, which prohibited the distribution of meals and water in places in the city center, forcing exiled people to walk more than an hour to reach the mobile distributions of the association mandated by the State. She also adds that a new decree dated September 30, 2020 widens this perimeter and has the consequence of hindering the solidarity of citizens, residents and associations, while many people exiled and wandering are not more able to eat, hydrate and benefit from basic hygiene conditions. Finally, she regrets the absence of a long-term proposal for people exiled to the Calais site, the only possible avenue for them being the request for asylum. However, this solution is only suitable for a tiny portion of exiles and is also not possible in the current state in the absence of service and support on the Calais site since 2016. Consequently, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees requested that a covered location be made available for distributions and to allow better access to information, particularly on the right to asylum. The Defender of Rights, following her visit to Calais, also called for a moratorium on evictions from camps. The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Law housing finally asked that the exiled people present in Calais be accommodated in unconditional, dignified places close to Calais, in order to allow a real respite and a real reflection on the rest of their journey. Taking all these elements into account, she asks what measures the Government intends to take to enable these people in extremely vulnerable situations to live in better living conditions. consistent with the most fundamental rights of exiled people.

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