The migrant-themed evening in Calais captivated the public
The “Thursdays in question” met last week at the Troublemaker to present the subject of migrants in Calais. Joe Dasniere, “life rush”testified to his stays in Calais in the Jungle, rather the jungles, because the camps, while waiting for the crossing, are torn apart, destroyed, every Thursday by the police.
“She had added a few photos and texts, poetic reflections of an ephemeral existence, of lives coming from Asia or Africa across Europe, fleeing wars and their procession of pain and famine, and there, without reception official and benevolent, but rather hostile when not malevolent. They are young, few women, and want to get closer to a family member already there, to earn money to send back to the country”, she says, remembering good times spent together, joking and laughing in English, their language of travel and the country that is at the end of their quest. At the start of the evening, the invited associations (Human Rights League, Rodez Migrants Collective, Never Without ToiT, Hot Kid) had described their activities: housing assistance, administrative procedures to obtain residence permits, access to associations of assistance, care, Restos du cœur… The ensuing debate revealed the organization of smugglers, like a travel agency, with selected and planned crossings of young people with financial means… but few poor people, condemned to remain in the miseries and dangers of the country. It was also a question of “Dublinés” who can only apply for asylum in the European country where they set foot, when they only want to be passing through to have asylum in Great Britain.
“There is an urgent need to resolve these problems in Brussels for more humanity and to extinguish the race of smugglers”. It is on this unanimous conclusion that the “Thursdays in question” closed the evening and announced their next meeting for the end of June.