Toulouse: “all in solidarity with migrants”
On the occasion of International Migrants Day, some 200 people gathered, leaving from Place Arnaud Bernard, in Toulouse, yesterday morning. Without overflow.
“Let them grow up here, regularization”; “What would I be without a roof”, “They are us”, here is what we could read yesterday morning on the banners of the demonstrators, Place Arnaud Bernard, in Toulouse. This gathering was the starting point of the national campaign “Antiracism and Solidarity” which will end on March 21, in Paris, with a national demonstration, on the occasion of the International Day against Racism.
“No less than 49 demonstrations are being held in France this Saturday in relation to this international day and to the fact that people are allowed to die on the Belarusian border, in the Channel or the Mediterranean. It seems important to us, today, that we show ourselves generous, that we open the borders and that we stop with this delirium where we instrumentalize migrants for far-right theories ”, proclaims Daniel Welzer-Lang, the organizer of the rally.
Marie, from DAL 31, was also in the procession to recall “that the first right of migrants is to have a roof” and “the unconditionality of emergency accommodation”. Member of the Education Without Borders network, Annie took to the streets this Saturday to defend “the reception with a capital A. In France, we must show solidarity with these people who are on the way to exile. We are a rich country, we have the means to welcome them, it just takes political courage ”. “We are here to express our indignation,” adds Paul of SOS Discrimination. “We are here to demonstrate against the detention of undocumented migrants in the Cornebarrieu detention center. For us, foreigners are our brothers like many others ”, concluded Pierre Chastrusse, of the Circle of Silence.