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The mayor of Décines-Charpieu is opposed to the opening of a shelter and assessment center for foreigners awaiting recognition of their minority. The left denounces an alignment “on the xenophobic and stigmatizing speeches of the RN”.
“Here is the Trojan horse, and I must inform the people of Decin!” On December 13, during the municipal council of Décines-Charpieu, a commune in the east of the metropolis of Lyon, the mayor LR, Laurence Fautra, was alarmed and used the mythological image of the large wooden horse flanked by Greek warriors, reports the daily Progress. The object of his fears? The construction of a shelter and assessment center (CMAE) with 50 to 70 places by the ecologist metropolis in its municipality to allow the reception of unaccompanied minors, during the assessment procedure of their minority (ranging from five to ten days). The same day, she invited her constituents by mail to sign a petition against the project. “We have to stop the lessons of angelism. They are not children. These are people ready to do anything to stay in the country who rush into the system by declaring themselves as minors. And even if some are indeed minors, they lost their innocence a long time ago. she declares to the local investigative newspaper Media.
Coincidence or not, the mayor of Décines is the third Republican elected official to oppose the opening of a reception center for young migrants in Lyon. Sébastien Michel, mayor of Ecully, blocks the opening of
