Information on the situation in Briançon! Call for help
For the past 2 weeks, the “refuge des terrasses” (a reception area for people who have just crossed the border into Italy) run by associations in the valley has been closed under pressure from sponsors because it had been full for months. As a result, the refuge association set up a camp on land belonging…
THE BORDER HAS KILLED AGAIN!
Another person has died on the French-Italian border of Montgenèvre. Another dead person, another body lying lifelessly face down was found on the high trail, on the so-called military road, from Claviere (Valsusa, IT) to Briancon (FR). Yet another dead body found in these mountains on Monday the 7th 2023. Another person killed on a…
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.…
One year after the eviction of the Casa Cantoniera Occupata
4 years have passed since the occupation of Chez Jesus in Claviere, in march 2018, and one year since the eviction of the Casa Cantoniera in Oulx. Thousands of people have passed through these self-managed spaces, and there are endless stories that could be remembered and told. In these 4 years a lot has changed:…
BORDER’S DEATH
A 15 years old guy died because of this border. One more death in these mountains, the responsibility for which, once again, falls on the state and its police. The newspapers had even hypothesized suicide, in between the three lines written on the story, without them knowing anything, without them wondering anything. Good servants of…
The border kills with indifference and invisibilization
Today the news of another terrible death at this border have been published, the corps of a man has been found in Salbertrand next to the railway of the train that is going in direction of the border, which is just a few kilometers away. Just a few lines in a local newspaper speak about…
The border killed FATHALLAH BELAFHAIL
On Sunday, January 2, 2022, a body was recovered in the Freney basin, downstream of Modane. The body belongs to FATHALLAH BELAFHAIL, a 31 years old Moroccan guy, arrived in France, through Italy, between December 29 and January 1. He has not been identified yet. No Italian newspaper reported this news and the local French…
RESALP, A COMPANY THAT SELECT ITS PASSENGERS AND THAT HELPS THE BORDER GUARDS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE BORDER.
Resalp is a french transportation company that runs the bus line connecting Italy and France from Oulx (TO) to Briançon. Since years, every day, this line is used by dozens of people that don’t have the documents in order to pass the border “legally”. Many leave with the bus from Oulx and arrive in Claviere,…
RACIST BORDERS, ACCOMPLICE TOURISM
The ski season begins. Updates from the border from fb Chez JesOulx Self-managed refuge The past saturday, after two years, the ski lifts of Montgenèvre have reopened. While ski slopes, bars and restaurants are filled with the usual rich tourists, free to enjoy their privileges, paf and gendarmerie continue to stop people considered “illegal” who…
ABOUT THE EVICTION OF THE CASA CANTONIERA IN CLAVIERE
Yesterday, the Casa Cantoniera de Claviere, a self-managed shelter occupied since last Saturday, was evicted. At dawn, the DIGOS agents waited until the barricades behind the main door were open, before breaking it down and entering the house. The intervention trucks arrived around seven o’clock, half an hour later, while the 19 people inside were…