Calais : the migrants deprived of water by the mayor of the city

Natacha Bouchart (feb.2013) VILLARD/SIPA

Published the 01.08.2017 at 12h08

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The mayor of Calais refuses to provide water to the exiles. She also refuses, even, to apply the law. Natacha Bouchart (LR) has decided to get in the sling and to oppose the decision of the State Council and the administrative court of Lille. This Monday, the instance has called on the City to put in place the access points to the water for the migrants. The municipality has indicated that it ” will not respond to injunctions “.

“The decision of justice of the Council of State is an injustice to the Calaisiens, because it puts them back under the threat of the re-creation of yet another “jungle”, “justified Natacha Bouchart in a press release, lamenting” the absence of a national policy and european offering a comprehensive solution to immigration control “.

“Drink, wash…”

The Council of State had been seized by the municipality and by the ministry of the Interior in order to challenge a decision of the administrative court of Lille released on June 26th. The court had then ordered the City of Calais and the State to install emergency water points to drink, to wash, to wash their clothes, as well as latrines, and organize a suitable access showers “.

A no-brainer, particularly from a health point of view, which collides with the reluctance of the city council. “In reality, it appears to me that the alternative to assist migrants assumes before their departure to adapted centres, and it is up to the State to have a clear answer on this subject. “still hammered the municipal official, adding that it would oppose “any device” and that the prefect, who “will meet the associations this week” will therefore have a ” requisition “.

“Inhuman”

For its part, the Council of State had considered that ” the living conditions of the migrants reveal a deficiency of public authorities, which is likely to expose persons concerned to inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, and who therefore bears a serious violation and manifestly illegal a fundamental freedom “. The high court had thus held that “it is right that the judge of the administrative tribunal gave” orders.