a white march brings together 200 people after the death of a young migrant
On September 28, Yasser, a young Sudanese migrant died after falling from a heavy truck while trying to reach England. An investigation for “manslaughter” has been opened.
Some 200 people took part in Calais on Friday in a white tribute to the Sudanese miner found dead in Marck (Pas-de-Calais) after falling from a heavyweight in which he was trying to climb to join England.
The march, which started around 5.30 p.m. from the Secours Catholique hangars, was organized by the exiles and migrant aid associations, in memory of the young Yasser, 16, who died on September 28. The demonstrators then marched through the main streets of the city center to the rhythm of the drums.
The applicants demand an end to police violence
“Freedom!”, “Non violence”, “Open borders” (“Open borders”), they chanted. “No more truck deaths” read on a banner. In the front line, some held up the photo of the young man.
In the procession, a majority of refugees called “for respect for human rights”, demanded “an end to police violence” and denounced “the conditions in which” they live as winter approaches.
According to CCTV footage of September 28, the young victim tried around 5:00 am “to get into the truck”, a semi-trailer which was traveling at low speed, but had “fallen”, the Boulogne prosecutor’s office told AFP. -on sea. An investigation for “manslaughter” has been opened.
Strong migratory tension
Yasser migrated with a group of others to the parking lot of the Marck de Calais commune limit activity zone, to try and climb into the heavy goods vehicles.
Almost five years after the dismantling of the “jungle” of Calais, hundreds of migrants are still present on the city and the coast of northern France, including many families, in the hope of crossing over to England.
Faced with the increasingly tight lockdown of access to ferries and the Eurotunnel, attempts to cross by sea have grown strongly from the end of 2018, but some migrants, especially the most penniless, continue to tend the passage by climbing into trucks.