“I misplaced every part I had”: the prefecture evacuates the Glacis camp

In entrance of the magnificent Kriegstor, a German fortress on the entrance to Glacis Park, Ibrahima exchanges a number of phrases with the gendarmes. It is previous 9am this Tuesday, June 18. The 53-year-old homeless man has simply discovered that the Glacis camp was evacuated by the police early this morning, round 6am. Ibrahima is denied entry to the park to gather his tent: “I used to be by no means warned about this desertion. We normally present the date and time and we will prepare it. How do I get my papers again? I’ve greater than two years of papers in my tent. »

In response, a gendarme vaguely reveals that to Ibrahima “Prefecture Representatives” can be current on the opposite facet of the park. A couple of minutes earlier, one other gendarme stated that the prefecture companies had left the positioning.

Ibrahima was not knowledgeable concerning the evacuation of the camp. He misplaced every part. Photograph: Guillaume Krempp / Rue89 Strasbourg / cc

About fifty individuals had been evacuated from the Glacis camp. In a press launch, the prefecture says that the operation was carried out in “the choice of the court docket introduced on Could 30, 2024 by the executive court docket of Strasbourg”. They had been taken to the Heyritz gymnasium. “The individuals’s scenario shall be assessed to provide entry to assist that’s appropriate for every scenario. » There’s a danger that some shall be despatched to establishments that goal to make them settle for return within the nation they got here from.

How do you recuperate gadgets taken throughout evacuation?

Throughout such an evacuation the Glacis camp, which is situated on the property of the Metropolis of Strasbourg, is town answerable for cleansing the world and eradicating tents and different gadgets that go away individuals homeless . Individuals who misplaced their merchandise after the operation can write an electronic mail to editors at [email protected] We are going to give them the process to observe to return every other gadgets and papers despatched by the Metropolis of Strasbourg.

Inhumane and ineffective coverage

This evacuation remembers a an open letter addressed to the prefecture, to the European Group of Alsace and to the Metropolis of Strasbourg. Signed by the associations Secours populaire and Médecins du Monde, the letter denounces an “inhumane and ineffective coverage”:

“Confronted with homeless individuals and households who simply wish to have a roof over their head and lead a peaceable life, the one response is to attend for a court docket resolution to hold out an evacuation operation by the police after months of stagnation and the scenario of individuals getting worse. (particularly concerning well being, training, integration, and many others.). »

In a press launch, the mayor of Strasbourg assured that she shares this opinion of the 2 societies. Jeanne Barseghian (Les Écologues) had “repeated [sa] a request to create an investigation committee that brings collectively the State, communities and group associations.”

On the facet of the executive court docket, President Xavier Faessel believed that town’s duty to higher put together these evacuees. On the time these strains had been written it’s nonetheless too early to evaluate whether or not the evacuation of the Glacis camp was carried out in a different way from the final operation. Afterextermination of homeless individuals in Meinau camp, mid-Aprilfrom new tents had been arrange in the identical place just some weeks later.