Last month, around ten of them gathered to express their feeling of abandonment in the face of the migration crisis. This Friday, November 8, 2024, several coastal mayors, including Natacha Bouchart, met to submit proposals to the Minister of the Interior.
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Denounce “silence” of the government. This Friday, November 8, 2024, several coastal mayors demanded to meet Bruno Retailleau regarding the migration crisis. The Minister of the Interior, visiting Marseille, has not yet visited the beaches where around fifteen migrants have died since he took office.
On Franceinfo, the mayor of Calais, Natacha Bouchart calls “a working meeting with the Minister of the Interior”. With other mayors, a “ten” proposals would have been drawn up to be presented to the ministry. Among them, the appointment of an immigration prefect for “recover tranquility across the entire coastal strip et the restoration of irregular stay on the coast for migrants who ask nothing from France.”
Natacha Bouchart also wishes a “transport police, of the humanitarian reception places, dignified but closed for at least women and children. Finally, the mayor of Calais appeals to British labor law. “They must take responsibility.”she pleads.
Natacha Bouchart, mayor of Calais, on the set of France 3 Nord Pas-de-Calais.
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For Stéphane Pinto, mayor of Ambleteuse, the situation is “urgent”while 2024 is the deadliest year in the Channel. Since January, at least 60 exiles have died and others have disappeared at sea. “For months we have been witnessing an increase in departures, we must react at all costs. And this is likely to increase in the weeks, months, even years to come.he warns. “Our priority is to continue to press for a meeting with the Minister of the Interior.”
The mayor of Equihen-Plage, Christian Fourcroy, believes that he has a “big problem” : the saturation of the bus network, used both by residents and migrants trying to reach the beaches. “We are trying at the community and urban level to provide additional buses, but for the moment, it is our responsibility, the State does not help us. he indicates. “We haven't heard from Mr. Retailleau yet, he prefers to worry about football matches than immigration.”he lamented.
Everyone is hoping for a response from the government before the Congress of Mayors in Paris, starting on November 19.
