Toulouse III Paul Sabatier University officially asks the State and Haute-Garonne to take their responsibilities
The Board of Directors of the University of Toulouse III Paul Sabatier voted a motion, Monday, January 23, 2023, relating to the occupation of one of its buildings by a hundred young migrants. The university asks the State and the department of Haute-Garonne to take up the case and provide solutions.
Toulouse III Paul Sabatier University no longer wants to manage the 4R3 building file alone, occupied by a hundred young migrants, since December 12, 2023. .
In a short text voted almost unanimously, except for one vote against, by the Board of Directors of the higher education establishment, “IUT3 (…) asks the competent authorities to take up the case and to provide accommodation solutions to the current occupants of the 4R3 building.”
A message sent directly to the attention of the State and the department of Haute-Garonne : “The Council recalls, however, that the missions of the University, defined by the Education Code, as well as the means allocated by the State to carry them out, are training and research. It also recalls that asylum and migration policies are sovereign powers of the State. The particular case of minor migrants is part of the missions of the Departmental Councils.
The 4R3 building does not represent an acceptable accommodation solution for the current occupants. This occupation is no more in line with the missions of the University; missions financed by a public budget indicated by the State to these missions.”
This position intervenes ten days after the order of the administrative court of Toulouse annulling the eviction of the occupants. Expulsion ordered by the same court on December 29, 2012, but new elements allowed the occupants to cancel that their installation in these premises does not present a danger in terms of safety or hygiene.
These refugees, from Africa, arrived in France in the spring of 2022. Installed in the former EHPAD des Tourelles then on the Jules Guesde alleys, these young migrants wait for the recognition of their minority by the juvenile judge.