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More Olympic Evictions in Calais

Calais Migrant Solidarity | 26.07.2012 17:05 | Migration | Repression

More evictions are threatened in order to 'clean up' the streets to pave way for tourists and athletes during the Olympics...

Evicted from place to place by the police for more than two months, a lot of migrants in Calais have found a precarious shelter in the place where the charities provide them meals, and under the arcades of a nearby building.

According to several sources a police raid is planned to happen in the next days in order that the migrants don't stay in this very visible place near the harbour, where tourists going to the Olympic games are going to cross.

You can from now express to the prefect of Pas-de-Calais county your worry according this information and your indignation in front of this perspective of olympic cleaning :
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 http://www.pas-de-calais.pref.gouv.fr/Contactez-nous/Etrangers

Don't be discouraged if the person who answer at the phone says he or she doesn't know anything : prefects are always careful to the impact on the public opinion and get informed about the reactions.

If you are abroad, you can contact the French Embassy in the country where you are :
 http://www.mfe.org/index.php/Annuaires/Ambassades-et-consulats-francais-a-l-etranger

It is also important that this scandalous cleaning receive a echo in the medias and doesn't stay hidden.

Calais Migrant Solidarity
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