Revolt in Mesnil Amelot’ detention center: “Everyone just wanted to be free”
Translated from – abaslescra.noblogs.org – 10/08/2022 Between Saturday and Sunday (6/7 August), a revolt broke out in Mesnil-Amelot, in the largest administrative detention centre in France. It is the umpteenth rebellion that shakes this prison for undocumented migrants, after the fire of January 2021, the hunger strike of March 2021, the collective escape of July 2021,…
European funding to Morocco to stop people, at all costs
by Altraeconomia by Luca Rondi – 1 July 2022 In recent years, the European Union has provided Moroccan police with means, ‘training’ and identification tools. Millionaire supplies, not very transparent, from which those same border guards who on 24 June caused the death of more than 20 people have benefited. Here, too, Frontex plays a…
Val Roya. Another murder by the police, another violence for the border.
Publushed on 19 juin on mars-info.org On 16 June 2022, a man died as a result of a head injury caused by a police shooting. The underlying reason was that there were undocumented people in the vehicle and the driver refused to comply. Police kill, border too On 16 June 2022, a man died as…
BROCHURE ON THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE EUROPEAN BORDERS
There are many people who, for the most diverse reasons, seek to move to live on a piece of land they were not born on. If they are rich, they are ‘expatriates’. If they are poor, they are irregular migrants, ‘clandestine’. In the coming decades alone, the number of people forced to move due to…
Assault at the Morocco-Spain border: at least 23 migrants die trying to enter Melilla
The deaths occurred during a mass crossing attempt of the Spanish North African enclave by some 2,000 people. So far, 23 migrants are reported killed and dozens of migrants and police officers injured in a “stampede” of people trying to cross the Spanish North African enclave of Melilla. Again in Melilla, the mass force tried…
OCCUPIED “ASTANTERIA” FOR THE MOBILIZATION AGAINST WARS AND BORDERS
This morning we occupied the Astanteria in Via Cuneo 32/a Torino for the mobilisation of three days against war and borders. The neighbourhood, the streets around the place chosen to organise this three-day event, is not random. The history of this area is a history created by violence, marked by a low-intensity war on the…
A NEW SELF-MENAGED SHELTER IS BORN!
In almost a year since the last eviction of the Casa Cantoniera in Claviere, we stayed here, in this valley, on this bloody and racist border, close to the people who challenge and overcome it every day, despite being forced to do so “illegally”: controlled, rejected and violated by the state and its armed forces.…
SCHEDULE OF THE WEEKEND OF MOBILIZATION AGAINST WAR AND BORDERS! – June the 24/25/26th – TURIN
Friday Morning: LET’S REAPPROPRIATE SPACES IN THE CITY FOR THE DURATION OF THE MOBILISATION! 12:30am Lunch 3-4:30pm Welcome, presentation of the event and legal point 5-7:30pm Non mixed discussion (without cis men) 8pm Dinner Saturday 9am Breakfast 10am-1pm concurrently: – Surveillance technologies and repressive apparatus in the War on Migrants, Critical whiteness, Climate change and migration.…
UK-RWANDA FLIGHT DESTINED TO DEPORT ASYLUM SEEKERS REMAINS GROUNDED
The first flight to Rwanda was due to leave London Stansted Airport on Tuesday. In the last few days, the number of people forced to be deported had dropped from 130 to 7 (mainly Iranian, Iraqi, Albanian and Syrian asylum seekers), following many individual appeals filed by lawyers of some British associations. Appeals and appeals…
Niger: riots in the UNHCR centre in Agadez. A UN partner office and police headquarters burnt down. 27 year old Sudanese boy dies in the clashes
During clashes between refugees and gendarmes, a 27 year old Sudanese man was killed on Wednesday 25 May in the UNHCR centre in Agadez, Niger. Apparently, early in the morning, gendarmes arrived in the camp to identify a person suspected of killing two cows belonging to a neighbouring Nigerian cattle farmer. It is still unclear…