WORLD WORLDWIDE FRANCE news journal UPDATE - (en) France, OCL CA #336 - Without Borders 336 (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

The Paris High Court ruled at the end of a long procedure brought by the
Sud PTT union for breach of the duty of vigilance regarding the risks
that the La Poste group poses to its subcontractor workers. Among them,
undocumented workers from Chronopost and DPD, several hundred of whom
have been on strike and in action for three years already against the
exploitation to which they are subject and against the negligence of La
Poste and the government which refuse to hear. The managers of the La
Poste group will have to stop fully assuming the uncontrolled use of
subcontracted labor. A battle won but the war is far from over, the
strike pickets of the French group's subcontractors continue.

Source: Sud PTT
Some figures on asylum in France
France accounts for 13% of the population of the European Union and 18%
of its GDP, but has only recorded 5% of asylum applications filed in
Europe since 2013 by refugees from the Middle East, and 18%. no more,
requests of African origin. How can we believe that it will be able to
be transferred to neighboring countries in the long term after the
implementation of the European Pact?
Source: Le Monde

The French authorities trample European justice
A man of Uzbek nationality suspected of "radicalization" by the French
authorities was detained and then expelled from French territory on
November 14, despite an interim measure from the European Court of Human
Rights (ECHR). Associations defending human rights and helping
foreigners denounced an "illegal and dramatic" expulsion that violates
European law. On December 7, the Council of State ordered the French
State to allow the return, at its expense and as soon as possible, of
the expelled Uzbek national. He is currently detained in Uzbekistan,
without access to criminal proceedings, in undignified conditions, and
risks torture if convicted.
Instrumentalizing the murder of the Arras teacher, Dominique Bernard,
and in the context of the debates around the "immigration" bill,
Darmanin and the government turn a deaf ear to the injunctions made to
them. The Minister of the Interior has not hidden his intentions
regarding expulsions, claiming the wish to be able to free himself from
the ECHR in order to remove individuals he considers "dangerous". The
ECHR actually leaves great latitude to States in matters of expulsion of
foreigners and the fight against terrorism. But it prohibits an
expulsion from exposing a person to death or torture. What the French
government makes fun of, ready to violate a court decision that
displeases it and to trample on European law.
Source: Le Monde

Climate change: Africans seek refuge in the Canaries
The migratory route from the African coasts to the Canary Islands is
increasingly popular. Between January 1 and November 30, 2023, more than
35,410 people arrived there by sea, according to the Spanish Ministry of
the Interior. This is more than double the previous year. The
intensification of controls and pushbacks in the Mediterranean favors
the route to the Canaries, but it is also the second deadliest route to
Europe. The NGO "Caminando Fronteras" estimates that more than 1,784
people died in 2022 in this crossing, and the toll for the year 2023 is
expected to be at least twice as heavy. The exiles undertake this
grueling journey after the loss of their livelihoods, often linked to
climate change which is hitting Africa hard, even though it emits less
than 4% of greenhouse gases on a global scale. . According to World Bank
reports, climate disruption could lead to annual losses of 2% to 12% of
GDP by 2050 in West Africa. This economic situation leads to political
instability.
Senegal is, this year, the first country of origin to the Canaries. Much
of this has to do with the collapse of local fishing. Fishermen were
crushed by the arrival of European factory ships, following a fishing
agreement concluded in 2020 which opened access to Senegalese waters.
More recently, a gas platform built in particular by the Americans BP
and Kosmos Energy off the coast of Senegal, in an area with a lot of
fish, has worsened the situation. The status of climate refugee does not
exist in international humanitarian law even though it is a root cause
of migration. The European Union is building a strategy that relies on
"restraint" in the islands - the Canaries, Lesbos, Samos, Lampedusa -
transformed into prisons for exiles. The imbalance is enormous between
the sums invested to welcome and integrate migrants and those disbursed
in the border war, in particular through the Frontex agency. This
militarized management of migration encourages the xenophobic speeches
and actions of the far right.
Source: Le Monde

Darmanin, visiting Calais to flirt with Les Républicains
According to estimates, there are currently around 500 migrants in
Calais - mainly from Sudan, Afghanistan and Eritrea - living in camps
that are dismantled every forty-eight hours. It is here that Darmanin
went on December 15 to present the immigration law, meet the mayor LR
Natacha Bouchart and decorate police officers and gendarmes "injured
during missions to fight against irregular immigration". In reaction, a
number of humanitarian associations called for a demonstration against
this communications and flirting operation against the Republicans so
that the immigration law would pass - which is what happened! "As during
an election period, Calais is a place of theater, a pedestal to flirt
with the right and pass its bill," declares Juliette Delaplace of
Secours catholique.
In the meantime, tragedies are increasing off the coast of the English
Channel. On the night of December 14 or 15, around sixty people were
rescued when their boat deflated and some were in the water. One of them
died while another was transported to Calais hospital in absolute
emergency. Furthermore, a Sudanese man died of cardiac arrest during
another shipwreck the same night.
Source: Le Monde

Calais December 15, 2023
Deportation to Rwanda, the British Parliament will not budge!
As reported in issue 335 of Courant Alternatif, the British Supreme
Court blocked a previous version of the project last month. She declared
the text illegal, considering that the risk was "real" for the people
concerned of being pushed back to their country of origin by the Rwandan
authorities, even if their request for protection was justified.
However, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's bill, allowing the
deportation of migrants to Rwanda, was finally adopted in a vote in
Parliament on December 12. This is the text considered to be "the
toughest" ever presented against illegal immigration, in the words of
the head of government.
This new text defines Rwanda as a safe third country and prevents the
return of migrants to their country of origin. It also proposes not to
apply certain provisions of British human rights law to evictions, to
limit legal recourse. However, the right wing of the conservative party
finds this text insufficient and incomplete. Some believe that London
should withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights and other
international human rights conventions, to prevent all legal challenges
from succeeding. These are the same demands advocated by the LR and RN
parties in France. At the beginning of December, the Minister of
Immigration, Robert Jenrick, resigned, refusing to support a text which
did not go "far enough" according to him. On both sides of the Channel,
the same repression of undocumented immigrants. Since the start of the
year, around 29,000 people have reached the United Kingdom aboard
inflatable boats, compared to more than 45,000 in 2022.
Source: Le Monde

SOS action AN EMERGENCY ROOF!
"There are between 800 and 1,200 in Paris and Saint-Denis, some 500 in
Calais, around 400 in Grande-Synthe near Dunkirk, 200 in Ouistreham,
several dozen scattered here and there along the Channel coast or in
large provincial towns... Several thousand migrant people sleep on the
streets every night, a situation that has persisted for months while
winter is here. Emergency actions are being carried out, but on a small
scale: sheltering children and families in schools, during the night,
occupations of public places.» This is how on December 3, 33 members of
the collective of young migrants from the Belleville park and several
dozen supportive residents of the 20th arrondissement entered, with a
banner "No more night outside for the young migrants from the park de
Belleville!", in the Maison de l'Air located on the heights of
Belleville park to allow young people to sleep sheltered and warm that
same evening and the next ones.
Video of the action on Youtube + Support pool for the Belleville park
youth collective: https://link.infini.fr/belleville

Emergency collective sheltering
On December 5, Paris City Hall celebrated citizen commitment and
solidarity with great fanfare in its ceremonial rooms at City Hall. The
200 teenagers, unaccompanied foreign minors illegally thrown onto the
street by the Department, and who have been surviving in unworthy
conditions for weeks on the square in front of the St Merri public
school opposite the Georges Pompidou Center, were not part of the party
. With a few supportive parents of students, they invited themselves
there, infiltrating a delegation to the "Paris, I am committed" evening
and challenged the mayor, Anne Hidalgo, with a banner: "Children on the
street. Shame of Paris." They then read a letter of grievances to the
public authorities. Late in the evening, with no offer of accommodation
in sight, the suggestion of massively occupying the premises to sleep
there while a solution was found pushed the municipal services to act. A
little before midnight, it was suddenly possible to house everyone, for
the same night, certainly in a precarious manner, but indoors, in
gymnasiums. Temporary outcome, pending legal treatment, but joy and
pride among young people for having been able to make themselves heard
and for having collectively restored their dignity.
Source: Supportive parents from Saint Merri school

Italy: 450,000 residence permits for foreign workers within three years
The measure may seem paradoxical for a government which is committed to
reducing immigration. But there is strong pressure from employers to
find workers in certain sectors that are not at all attractive, given
the low salaries, abusive hours and very harsh working conditions;
sectors that French immigration law defines as being "in tension".
Agriculture, construction, personal services, tourism: the Italian
economy cannot function without non-EU workers. Some 50,000 positions
have already been opened at the beginning of December. They found buyers
immediately.
Giorgia Meloni, who promised to stop illegal immigration, is opening the
floodgates to labor immigration like never before in ten years. And
these 450,000 residence permits announced until 2027 are far from
meeting the needs, according to the president of the chambers of
commerce in Italy: "That is not enough, the government itself recognizes
that 800,000 are needed. But it "is certainly more than a million; one
job offer in two does not find a taker." In France, Darmanin speaks of
7,000 to 10,000 additional regularizations per year of undocumented
workers planned with the new law.
Source: Le Monde

303 Indians held against their will, four days at Vatry airport
On Wednesday, December 21, around 3 p.m., an Airbus from the Romanian
company "Legend Airlines" landed at Paris-Vatry airport for a technical
stopover which was to last one hour - just to refuel with kerosene. On
board, in addition to the 15 crew members, are 303 Indian nationals who
took off from the city of Fujairah (United Arab Emirates) to go to
Managua, Nicaragua. After an anonymous call, the Air Transport
Gendarmerie Brigade (BGTA) carried out a check and then immobilized the
machine for an investigation into suspicions of human trafficking opened
by the Paris Prosecutor's Office. For 4 days - the maximum provided for
by law - passengers are confined in the airport reception hall, the
place having been transformed by prefectural decree into a waiting area
for foreigners with camp beds and showers. outside! Suspicions hover
over Indian migrants who worked in the Persian Gulf and who may have
left for Nicaragua and then crossed illegally to the United States.
After the legal twists and turns, the plane took off again on December
25, but headed for Bombay, India. Back to square one for the 276 Indians
who agreed to get back on the plane. Two passengers are accused of being
smugglers and receive an OQTF. The 25 passengers who remained in Vatry,
including 5 unaccompanied minors, applied for asylum. They were
transferred to the waiting area for people in waiting (ZAPI) at Roissy
Charles-de-Gaulle airport.

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