This Wednesday, October 23, the administrative court rejected the request of the Lyon bar to close Retention Center 2, known as “Cra du futur”. In a summary statement, the Order denounced the “unworthy” living conditions in which the detainees lived. The judges mostly followed the State’s argument.
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Pierre Lemerle
Published on October 23, 2024 ·
Printed on October 24, 2024 at 02:08 a.m. ·
Modified on October 23, 2024 ·
7 minutes
As a new immigration law looms, it is a decision that is important. This Wednesday, October 23, the administrative court of Lyon rejected the request of the President of Lyon to close the Lyon Detention Center 2.
“The summary judges recognize that the reception of a population of detainees leaving prisons or known for disturbances to public order in “ultra secure” premises generates endemic violence and requires special arrangements, they note. However, they consider that this request for an injunction (…) does not fall within the powers of the judge ruling urgently. »
This decision comes at the end of an almost unprecedented initiative in Lyon. On Monday, October 19, the bar association requested, before the judges, the closure of what looks like a prison for migrants. “It is not a political posture, nor an action of principle,” defended vice-president Sara Kébir to Rue89Lyon. Concretely, there is a danger regarding respect for fundamental rights in this center. »
This “rare” legal action did not come overnight. Already at the end of 2022, the president of Lyon visited what was already called at the time “the Cra of the future”. For good reason: the detention center must serve as a model for many others. Just a few months after its opening, lawyers were already worried. They returned there in 2023, then in 2024…
Each time, the various presidents of the bar have noted that the living conditions of the detainees are “unworthy”, worse than those of Cra 1, although it is already considered very problematic. Rooms that do not close, toilets without doors (and therefore without privacy), fenced courtyard like a prison, very difficult access to care… “Everything is done to reproduce a prison world, but without a legal framework,” says Franck Heurtrey, who represented the bar before the administrative court.
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