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Into the wilderness – Jules-Ferry and Calais new jungle

Exodus | 21.03.2015 19:19 | Anti-racism | Migration

The authorities have announced all camps and squats will be evicted after the end of the month. All migrants must move, willingly or by force, to a new jungle–ghetto near the new day centre Jules-Ferry, where they will be ‘tolerated’ – not allowed to stay!

No accommodation will be provided, the centre will be only open by day. All men and boys can bring their tents, else the tents will be destroyed. There are many unaccompanied minors, the youngest age 12 or less. A hundred women and children will be allowed to sleep in the Jules-Ferry centre where they will have 4 square meters each at their disposal in a prefab. A disaster, as far as the protection of women and children is concerned: they will pretty much be given into the hands of people smugglers and prostitution rings.
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an Ertrean woman, Rosa, says she was beaten unconscious by police and woke up in hospital with a broken leg. Two children interviewed by HRW say they were ill treated by police and pepper sprayed. A Sudanese man had an arm broken in three places after an encounter with the police.
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There are no houses nearby, nor shops, not a sign of civilization; only hunters who do not want the migrants there and are shooting birds where the migrants should go and live: the ground is littered with thousands of empty cartridges. It is close to smugglers’ territory– not all smugglers are bad but some are, and on the way to lorry parks that have been the theatre of very violent fights, resulting in several people hospitalized. It is actually a miracle that nobody has died that way. These fights can sometimes continue for days, involve hundreds of people and expand to the camps where people are sleeping.

Read the full article - with links to two new videos about violence by police, security and lorry drivers:

 https://watchtheborders.wordpress.com/2015/03/21/into-the-wilderness-jules-ferry-and-calais-new-jungle/

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