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Continued repression in Calais

No Borderer | 05.08.2009 09:48 | Migration | Repression

More people needed!

The repression of migrants in Calais continued over Monday and Tuesday:

12 CRS (riot police) took photographs and papers at Sudanese squat; 1 was arrested
1 Iranian was arrested, but released very quickly.
6 Hazara was arrested
5 CRS vans went to the Pashtun jungle; people had their photographs taken and papers checked
3 Palestinianss arrested
3 Sudanese were arrested
2 Eritreans gassed and arrested

Help is still definitely needed if you can go over for a bit. Please bring a bike or car if you can - as you can see from the list above, stuff is happening every day at the various squats and it helps if you can get about quickly. If you're thinking of going over there and want to donate anything, other things that migrants would really like if you can bring anything else are O2 SIM cards and English books.

See the Calais Migrant Solidarity site for the info line if you're thinking of going:
 http://calaismigrantsolidarity.wordpress.com/

No Borderer

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The usual oppression

06.08.2009 01:46

This report didn't get much of an airing but is worth checking out on calais migrant solidarity site to see the pics too which don't seem to have uploaded here as I hoped.

*Thursday 30th July

Migrant in hospital after police assault and arrest



Beaten and arrested for sitting in the park

After lunch time food distribution french national police hospitalised one migrant and arrested another: Several of us saw the migrants chatting peacefully in the gardens in front of the town hall. A police van then arrived and police men jumped out and ran towards the migrants who tried to desperatly flee. The police caught up with them and viciously beat one of them to the ground with a baton. He was hospitalised and the other was cuffed and taken away. When asked the police told us that they’d been arrested “for running away from them”. The police later claimed that they had been called to the area because the migrants had been trying to break into a camping car (which was parked in a very busy and visible place in front of the town hall).

This was a surreal and incredibly vicious incident; locals and tourists got a glimpse of the routine hassle that migrants are subjected to here, before continuing about their business in sunny Calais.

anon