200 people for a white march in tribute to a young migrant who died
Some 200 people took part in Calais on Friday in a white tribute to the Sudanese miner found dead in
Marc (Pas-de-Calais) after having fallen from a heavy weight in which he was trying to climb to rally England. The march, which started at 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.
” Freedom ! “, ” Nonviolence “, ” Open the borders “(” Open the 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 and 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 images of September 28, the young victim had tried around 5 am “to get into the truck”, a semi-trailer which was traveling at low speed, but had “fallen”, had indicated the parquet floor of Boulogne-sur- Wed An investigation for “manslaughter” was opened.
Yasser migrated with a group of other migrants in the parking lot of the Marck activity zone, a town bordering Calais, to try to climb into the heavy goods vehicles. Almost five years after the dismantling of the “jungle” of Calais, hundreds of migrants and migrants are still present in the city and the coast of northern France, including many families, in the hope of making their way to England. Faced with the ever-increasing lockdown of access to ferries and the Eurotunnel, attempts to cross by sea have increased significantly from the end of 2018, but some migrants, especially the most penniless, continue to attempt the passage in riding in trucks.