Open letter to the French Prime Minister, Manuel Valls
and to the French Minister of the Interior, Bernard Cazeneuve
on the migratory situation in Calais and its surroundings, as well as on the English Channel and the North Sea coasts
10th of July 2014
M. le Premier ministre Hôtel de Matignon 57, rue de Varenne 75700 Paris
M. le Ministre de l’Intérieur Place Beauvau 75800 Paris Cedex 08
Dear Prime Minister, Dear Minister of the Interior,
The policy you are pursuing in (…)

Paris, June 26, 2014 - Pursuant to the disastrous Left-to-die-boat incident which took the life, in March 2011, of 63 people near the coast of Libya, at the height of the the Mediterranean military operations, a few survivors and several organisations filed a complaint on June 14, 2013, accusing the French army of not providing assistance to persons in danger.
Without the slightest investigation investigating, the presiding judge, on December 6, 2013, announced there was no grounds to (…)

on Tuesday, 15th December

Whereas we called out, here in plenary session on November 24th, to the Council and the Commission, on the "joint removals of irregular migrants to Afghanistan", one cannot but notice that France and Great-Britain are looking for persisting in joint expulsion operations.
Today, nine afghans held in the retention centre of Calais-Coquelles and two others held in Lille, have seen themselves notified of their expulsion to Afghanistan for Tuesday, 15th December.
Whereas they have fled the (…)

Report of a CFDA mission of inquiry carried out between May and July 2008

Between May and July 2008, the French Coalition for Asylum Rights (CFDA) (Coordination française pour le droit d’asile), composed of about twenty French associations, carried out a mission of inquiry in north-western France on the situation of the “exiles” found in the area.

Testimonies of the movements in the Retention Centres of Vincennes and elsewhere