The local administrative detention center (LRA) of Choisy-Le-Roi was closed on Saturday, after a court decision rendered on February 5 by the administrative court of Melun for “inhuman or degrading treatment”.
The local administrative detention (LRA) of Choisy-Le-Roi was closed this Saturday, said the prefecture of Val-de-Marne, which thus respected a court decision pinning the place for “inhuman or degrading treatment”, especially because of the sanitary facilities.
The court decision, issued on February 5 by the administrative court of Melun, “was implemented this morning,” said the prefecture. “There was still one foreigner in an irregular situation who was in the LRA but his administrative detention was terminated, so there are no more people currently in this LRA” with a capacity of 12 people.
According to the court decision relayed on Twitter by the Association of Lawyers for the Defense of the Law of Foreigners (ADDE), the court ordered the prefect of Val-de-Marne “to stop using the premises (.. .) as long as measures are not taken to effectively guarantee respect for the right of persons detained not to be subjected to inhuman and degrading treatment “.
Work in the coming weeks
In particular: access to the toilets. “To get to the sanitary block, those detained must make a request to the staff on duty, wait behind a closed gate separating the relaxation area and the entrance hall, be accompanied by this agent who opens the gate for them. and patient, under surveillance, near the sanitary block, before being escorted back to the relaxation area, “detailed the summary judge.
This situation constitutes “a serious and manifestly illegal violation of their right not to be subjected to inhuman or degrading treatment”, he ruled.
“We fully understand that there are management and regulatory obligations with regard to safety, that arbitrations must be made, but arbitrations cannot be at this level to the detriment of individuals”, underlined Me Patrick Berdugo, lawyer on behalf of ADDE.
The prefecture indicated that work to guarantee “better access to sanitary facilities” would begin “in the coming weeks”. “We were working on this sanitary issue before the court ruling,” she said.
The LRA of Choisy-le-Roi welcomed nearly 900 people in 2018 then in 2019. In 2020, in the midst of a health crisis, 281 people were detained there for an average duration of just over 32 hours.
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