* On the events that occurred at the CRA de Vincennes
* We acknowledge the government's policy
Excluding hundreds of thousands of people sans-papiers, Europe and France impose a climate of terror. With the recently voted the situation will worsen.
Sunday, June 22, 2008, the detention center in Vincennes, which contained 273 sans-papiers, 33 of whom were in court awaiting deportation, was destroyed by fire.
Saturday, June 21, a sans-papiers, held despite poor health, died at the Centre.
These dramatic events, a direct result of the xenophobic and murderous policies pursued in Europe, and the French government, require a general mobilization and the construction of a broad movement against these inhumane policy decisions. For months, the sans-papiers internees, associations, families, some political figures denounced to the authorities and the public the scandalous situation of the detention camps: Threats and harassment of any kind, tear gas, beatings and violence, use of taser, etc.. The anger and revolt, despair, have transformed in practice extreme self-injury and mutilation, recruitment of large doses of sedatives and tranquilizers, a hunger strike ... The policy of quantity ceilings in the annual budget of expulsions to be achieved, the raids and detentions produce dead Chulian Liu, ousted dead to avoid capture by the police, John Mauna, a threat to his country, he hanged himself after refusal of asylum Baba Traoré was thrown from a bridge while he was being chased by the cops ... And on Saturday 21 at the Field of Vincennes, came the turn of Salem Essouli, sans-papiers Tunisian awaiting deportation.
The destruction of the detention center in Vincennes, Sunday 22, a symbol of industrialization arrest, jail and deportation, it creates a precedent that requires a new awareness. This event which has deeply traumatized detainees undermines the failed policies and emphasizes the responsibility of the government. We denounce the actions and statements dellUMP (Sarkozy's party ndt.) And the Government, together with the Minister of Immigration. The prisoners were asphyxiated by tear gas and smoke from the fire that trapped them and then locked in a gym, and many had to be hospitalized urgently for severe intoxication, others parked in the courtyard and surrounded by police, were forced to stay with her hands on her head for hours, cold, anxious, shocked and appalled by the fear that only evacuated late in the evening, and then dispersed in other towns: Nimes, Lille, Rouen, Palaiseau.
We demand liberation and the legalization of sans-papiers CRA de Vincennes and all other sans-papiers. * Just dead! * Stop the arrests and expulsions * closure of detention centers * Liberation and regularization of all sans-papiers
9eme Collectif des Sans-Papiers
info: 9eme_collectif@no-log.org
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