Migrant camp destroyed, local French town sets up camp outside town hall
calaismigrantsolidarity | 11.09.2009 10:43 | Anti-racism | Migration | Repression | South Coast | World
Tuesday 7th September at 7am it took 82 cops to detain 85 migrants at a long established camp (2007) sited on farm land close to the A26 The cops then cut down the trees in the copse where the camp was sited and torched everything except the single bag of possessions that each migrant was allowed to take and the equipment that local supporters from Fraternité-migrants were allowed to retrieve.
http://www.lavoixdunord.fr/Locales/Lens/actualite/Secteur_Lens/2009/09/09/article_angres-le-camp-de-vietnamiens-clandestin.shtml
http://www.lavenirdelartois.fr/actualite/Faits_divers/Faits_divers/2009/09/08/article_groupe_nord_littoral_1101062.shtml
But it is the local support that is the real story. 52 of the migrants were taken to Coquelles and 28 detained at the National Police station in Liévin. The later were released that afternoon, collected by volunteers and taken back to Angres. At 6pm there was a town meeting at which it was decided to set up a camp outside the town hall to house the 28 Vietnamese and 7 others who were found wandering around after the camp’s destruction. Volunteers stayed in the camp overnight as the old camp had been attacked on the previous Friday night and a couple of migrants beaten up.
Check out
http://www.politis62.org/index.php?title=Camp_de_migrants_sur_la_place_d’Angres
http://www.lavoixdunord.fr/Locales/Lens/actualite/Secteur_Lens/2009/09/09/article_vingt-huit-migrants-relaches-hier-apres.shtml
Also
http://www.politis62.org/index.php?title=Cat%C3%A9gorie:Fraternit%C3%A9-migrants_bassin_minier_62
THE 52 DETAINED AT COQUELLES (near Calais) ARE THREATENED WITH DEPORTATION, CIMADE AND OTHERS ARE ORGANISNING THEIR LEGAL SUPPORT – and looking for interpreter…as the one they have cannot cope with so many cases.
Vidéo de France 3 sur le démantèlement du camp d’Angres
http://nord-pas-de-calais-picardie.france3.fr/info/nord-pas-de-calais/Angres-:-un-campement-de-migrants-d%C3%A9mantel%C3%A9-57076993.html


But it is the local support that is the real story. 52 of the migrants were taken to Coquelles and 28 detained at the National Police station in Liévin. The later were released that afternoon, collected by volunteers and taken back to Angres. At 6pm there was a town meeting at which it was decided to set up a camp outside the town hall to house the 28 Vietnamese and 7 others who were found wandering around after the camp’s destruction. Volunteers stayed in the camp overnight as the old camp had been attacked on the previous Friday night and a couple of migrants beaten up.
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THE 52 DETAINED AT COQUELLES (near Calais) ARE THREATENED WITH DEPORTATION, CIMADE AND OTHERS ARE ORGANISNING THEIR LEGAL SUPPORT – and looking for interpreter…as the one they have cannot cope with so many cases.
Vidéo de France 3 sur le démantèlement du camp d’Angres

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Sarkozy
11.09.2009 13:12
Besson
@Sarkozy
11.09.2009 15:14
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Made my day
11.09.2009 23:41
Its about time the french did something about the scum trying to get over here
Barnsley-Bill
It's scum like Barnsley-Bill that we don't want in the country
12.09.2009 01:04
There was a regime not long ago that had border controls, checkpoints and asked for "Papers, please!" Actually on reflection, there were several, and all unsavoury.
If authoritarian bigots like you have their way, we would all be living in small enclaves with no-one allowed in or out. Why stop at border controls on countries? What about a big fence around Barnsley to stop fascist scum like Barnsley-Bill polluting the neighbouring towns?
Smash all borders and all authority! Anarchy is freedom!
anti-fascist
camp besson
12.09.2009 14:53
then when they arrive we can show them how to apply for all the benefits they are entitled to
immigration worker
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