Solidarities
Les Midis du Mie
Published on Friday October 27, 2023
Months on the street, a few hours of respite and the administrative nightmare begins again.
We denounce and follow very closely. Numerous emails were sent to institutions, letters were sent to young people so that they could defend themselves, lawyers mobilized.
And this JOINT PRESS RELEASE:
On October 19, 2023, the regional prefecture and the City of Paris initiated a large-scale operation aimed at sheltering around 430 young people in street situations and currently undergoing the procedure for recognition of their minority for the purposes of placement in child welfare.
On October 25 and 26, 2023, almost all of them, as adults, were nevertheless summoned to the Paris police headquarters to submit an application for a residence permit.
Yesterday morning, from 8:30 a.m., three lawyers from the Collective of Lawyers for Assistance to Foreigners (CAAE), requested by our associations, assisted some of these young people and were able to speak with one of the department heads of the prefecture .
It was explained to them that the City of Paris, the prefecture, considered that all of the young people summoned were adults.
However, during the sheltering operation, only young people who were able to prove a procedure in progress before the TPE, by the presentation of their civil status documents, a request and/or ‘a summons, were invited to board the buses bound for the CAES.
Thus, the City of Paris and the prefecture were perfectly informed of the alleged minority of all these young people and their administrative situation.
Since the prefecture cannot ignore the fact that minors do not have to request the issuance of a residence permit to reside on French territory, it is feared that this operation aims, in reality, to enact mass obligations to leave er the territory (OQTF) after systematic recording through fingerprinting.
To be convinced of this, the lawyers present on site were able to note that the young people claiming their minority to the prefectural agents were asked to leave the premises without submitting a residence permit application file.
These young people, who have been wandering for months, were directed to different CAES in Ile de France (Boulevard Ney, Porte de la Villette, Clichy, Sarcelles, Vaux le Pénil, Ris-Orangis, etc.)
Without filing a file with the prefecture, they are now threatened with being put back on the street.
As the winter break approaches, we are asking the City of Paris and the police headquarters to offer a lasting accommodation solution, in Ile-de-France, to all young people currently undergoing proceedings before the court for children and this, as long as the latter has not made a definitive decision on their minority.
We condemn with the greatest firmness the unfair methods used by the City of Paris and the police headquarters, whose sole objective is to empty the capital of people considered “undesirable” in the run-up to the Olympic Games, without consideration of their rights and their dignity.
Signatories:
The Collective of Lawyers for Assistance to Foreigners (CAAE)
Ms. Julie COUTURIER, President of the Paris Bar
Mr. Vincent NIORE, Vice President of the Paris Bar
Ms. Stéphanie CHABAUTY, President of the Seine-Saint-Denis Bar Lawyers of the Minors Branch of the Paris Bar
The Association for the Defense of Minors of the Val-de-Marne Bar
Les Midis du Mie Association
Utopia 56
Association TARA
TIMMY Association – Support for Exiled Minors
Association Schoolidaires
Doctors of the World – IDF Delegation
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