Kabako à Bordeaux. Des mineurs isolés jetés à la rue par la préfecture et le département
Two weeks ago the Kabako place of life, which accommodated unaccompanied minors, pending the end of their appeal period and access to aid for unaccompanied minors, was expelled by the prefecture and the Department . The prefecture had only offered them emergency accommodation in three Bordeaux hotels until October 11 at a minimum.
As the report in a press release from the Kabako collective, Médecins du Monde Aquitaine and the Tremplin association who met with the prefecture the day after the eviction from the place of life on September 24, ” the representative of the prefecture declares that she endeavors to ensure that their accommodation conditions are adapted to their particular situation and proposes to make “case by case” in the extension of these shelters. The Department and the Prefecture have also agreed to settle the issue of access to food and hygiene products for the 25 young people housed. “.
However, as of this Thursday morning six young people were fired from their accommodation by the hoteliers following new directives from the part of the prefecture submitted early Tuesday evening and today find themselves in the street, the other hotels will be emptied of ‘here until next Monday. While the collectives were to take stock this Thursday, October 7 with the prefecture and the department on the situation of 25 former residents of Kabako, the prefecture declared that it was not aware of these expulsions. As Claire, member of the Kabako collective, declares, “ this is completely impossible because these are directives of the DDCS (departmental direction of social cohesion), it is completely illogical, we find ourselves on our knees to ask at least that the 6 who were put on the street this morning stay in a hotel until October 11, it is their request that they just keep their commitment “. If the rehousing proposals were initially largely insufficient, the prefecture does not respect the same and lies within associations and minors. ” On a nothing, on a no perspective and on a nothing to say to them », Can only deplore the members of the Kabako collective who can now only count on the networks of solidarity activists.
Thus, if the department had justified the expulsion of the Kabako by ” the unsanitary conditions of the building […] and the importance of sheltering persons recognized as minors », This is just a lie and demagoguery. On the one hand the department and at its head Jean-Luc Gleyze and his majority PS is directly responsible for the situation. As we have already mentioned, they are trying to clear their customs by calling on the Secretary of State in charge of Children to call for “Better work upstream to avoid evictions, they have experienced injustices when after several several years. have lived years of accompaniment. However, the Department owns the building that the Kabako occupied, so the PS majority ordered their eviction. A demagogic speech, far from a reality where the department and the prefecture, in addition to lying, unscrupulously leave minors without a housing solution, the majority of whom have come to France to flee their condition. disastrous existence in their country of origin and hope for a better life.
An even more scandalous situation when one cannot note the complicit silence of the town hall of Pierre Hurmic on this affair. If the town hall voted on February 23 a motion committing to better care for young migrants through a joint project with the department and the prefecture, it is clear that the Bordeaux town hall EELV warns against the homelessness of young minors from the former Kabako. After having accompanied the violent expulsions of the prefect Buccio from the places of life of L’Éclaircie and La vie est belle, this new situation only raises the veil on the progressive veneer that the town hall of Pierre Hurmic wants to give itself. The announcement of the reception of fifty Afghan migrants, in addition to entering the game of demagoguery of sorting between good and bad migrants, is only the hypocritical facade of a town hall that accompanies the criminalization of migrants that it allows to deport each year on its territory.
Once again we have demonstrated that we cannot count on the institutions to respond to these inhuman situations. In the midst of the government’s authoritarian and racist turn, and with the over-media coverage of xenophobic Zemmour, it is necessary to show solidarity with the situation of young people in Kabako. Housing must be requisitioned to provide shelter to anyone in need without any discrimination, all undocumented migrants must be regularized and be free to move, settle and live in dignified conditions.
Photo credit : Kabako