Cambremer “will not host an accommodation center for young migrants” according to Xavier Charles

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Following the hot news surrounding the reception of migrants in Cambremer (Calvados), Xavier Charles, vice-president of the Calvados Departmental Council, wanted to express himself on several points of the matter in a press release.

“Since the installation of a squat in the former EPHAD in Cambremer, the co-owners of the premises have raised the possibility of a hypothetical takeover of the premises by the Department to install a migrant reception center” recalls the elected official, who wishes to clarify this point, “in matters of migrants, the Department only has responsibility for unaccompanied minors, in other words, young people under the age of 18 who travel without their family. Emergency accommodation for adults and families, however, is the entire responsibility of the State,” he adds.

“Cutting all rumors short”

According to Xavier Charles, who could not be clearer:

The Department has no intention of setting up a permanent reception center for young migrants in Cambremer, firstly because the young migrants in the Department's care are almost always welcomed in Caen to avoid multiple road trips. and additional operating costs, then because the departmental councils which, in the past, attempted to convert small EPHADs into reception centers for unaccompanied minors suffered numerous disappointments, this type of building not being at all planned in their design to accommodate this type of public.

The elected official points out in particular premises “rapidly and heavily degraded by the young people hosted, which forced the communities to carry out major restoration work”.

Therefore, considering a future reception center in Cambremer is only an illusion, “there will therefore be no accommodation center for minors in an EPHAD in the Pays d'Auge and I prefer to cut short any rumor or hypothesis that the Department could rent or buy the premises for this type of accommodation. It will be no.”

Support for the mayor of Cambremer

However, the vice-president of the Departmental Council specifies that “the presence of these migrant families in Cambremer does not bother me”, while paying tribute to the mayor of Cambremer, who “does what she can to cope with this situation which imposed itself on her and I assure her of my support in this regard.” Xavier Charles is less conciliatory with “those who guided these families into this private property and who illegally opened the doors to them”, an action which he firmly “denounces”. In this sense, and for the days and weeks to come, the elected official hopes “that the State and its representatives will scrupulously respect property rights”.

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