New demonstration against the expulsion of this Chadian family from Maromme
Through Marie Aillerie
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About fifty people gathered, Wednesday, January 11, 2023in front, there Prefecture from Rouen (Seine-Maritime), in support of Mariam D. and her five children, aged five to 20. This family, living in Maromme, is threatened with deportation to his country of origin, Chad. Arrived in France in 2019, she had fled it in order to prevent her daughters from suffering a female circumcision.
A risk of excision in Chad
Mariam D. and her eldest daughter, who remained in Chad and married to her uncle, have already suffered this torture. It is to avoid this for her other daughters that the mother of the family fled her country in 2019. female circumcision is the total or partial removal of the external female genitalia or any other injury to the female genitalia that is performed for non-medical reasons. A practice practiced in around thirty countries around the world, including Chad.
An audience of the prefect requested
After one asylum application refusedand an obligation to leave French territory by the prefecture of Rouen, Mariam D. today requests an audience with the prefect of Seine-Maritime. “A letter was sent to him last week, but we never got a response,” says Alain Bernard, member of the CGT Educ’Action and teacher, support for the Maromme family. The prefect has the power to issue, exceptionally, a temporary residence permit to Mariam. »
UN another gathering is scheduled for next week, “and we will continue until we have been received”, proclaims Clémence Hamel, member of the CGT Educ’Action and teacher, in front of the gates of the prefecture.
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