This is the Minister of the Interior's first trip to the northern Channel coast since his appointment. 72 migrants have died trying to cross to the United Kingdom since the start of the year.
Bruno Retailleau will travel to Calais (Pas-de-Calais) this Friday, November 29, the first visit since his appointment to the Ministry of the Interior to the coast of northern France, where mayors have been calling for several weeks on the government to take action. measure of the migration crisis. The Interior Minister's entourage confirmed this visit to AFP on Wednesday, without further details at this stage.
The shipwrecks continued this fall in the English Channel. At least 72 candidates for exile have died since the start of the year while trying to reach England by sea, according to a count by the Pas-de-Calais prefecture.
Mayors “are on the front line”
At the beginning of October, a collective of around fifteen coastal mayors, including that of Calais Natacha Bouchart (various right), spoke, saying they were “abandoned” by the State in the face of a “human tragedy” and calling on the government to “finally take stock of the problem”.
Mayors “are on the front line, forced to face, without having the necessary means, a problem whose management is nevertheless the responsibility of the State”, explained the collective at the time.
Last week during the Congress of Mayors in Paris, this collective called on the government to begin a showdown with the British so that the latter “open legal immigration channels”.
Le Touquet agreements, border management…
He also called for the renegotiation of the Le Touquet agreements, which since 2004 have entrusted France with border management, the establishment of a prefect responsible for immigration and the creation of a transport police to “reassure” the coastal inhabitants.
Prime Minister Michel Barnier announced Tuesday that Bruno Retailleau would go to London on December 8 and 9 to meet his British counterpart in charge of immigration.
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