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WORLD NEWS Tuesday 1 augusT 2017

France: 2 centers to handle migrants returning to Calais

By ELAINE GANLEY The Council of State,
Associated Press France’s highest adminis-
PARIS (AP) — France’s inte- trative body, rejected that
rior minister announced on appeal, ruling Monday
Monday plans to open two that Calais authorities were
centers to shelter migrants exposing the migrants to
returning to the northern “inhuman or degrading
port city of Calais, deter- treatment” that amounts
mined to get to Britain de- to a “grave and manifest-
spite the closing of a vast ly illegal attack on a fun-
makeshift camp last fall. damental freedom.” The
While Gerard Collomb put body upheld a court order
the number of migrants in that authorities must help
Calais at some 400, he said migrants who wish to move
more than 30,000 attempts to shelters.
have been made to sneak In response, Collomb said
into the ferry port, the Euro- two centers will be created
tunnel train station or jump to shelter willing migrants
onto trucks heading to Brit- and speed up assessments
ain since the start of the of their situations — includ-
year. The minister also or- ing whether they must be
dered a report looking into expelled from France.
claims of police mistreat- French Interior Minister Gerard Collomb talks to the media in Tunis, Tunisia, Monday, July 24, 2017. In keeping with the court
ment of migrants after Hu- Collomb announced on Monday plans to open two centers to shelter migrants returning to the order, he said that officials
man Rights Watch alleged northern port city of Calais, determined to get to Britain despite the closing of a vast makeshift would set up “mobile sites”
police “routinely” use pep- camp last fall. to access water and toilets
per spray on refugees, in- (AP Photo/Riadh Dridi) for migrants.
cluding when they were Speaking at a news confer-
sleeping, and appealed and asylum-seekers until it “We don’t want to restart ruling last month order- ence, he said there were
for witnesses to come for- closed in October, has re- the bad experiences of the ing that the hundreds of 350 to 400 migrants in the
ward. fused to host similar camps. past that all ended in the migrants still making their area — two-thirds of them
Calais, which housed a Most of the camp’s inhabit- same way,” Collomb said. way to Calais should have Eritreans and Ethiopians,
sprawling, slum-like camp ants have been bussed to Collomb and the city of access to drinking water, and the rest Afghans and
for up to 7,000 refugees centers around France. Calais appealed a court showers and toilets. Pakistanis.q

Doctors Without Borders reject Italy’s migrant rescue rules

MILAN (AP) — Doctors with migrant traffickers. Au- themselves. of sea rescues. Hundreds of 10 organizations, Save
Without Borders and oth- thorities have said that or- Doctors Without Borders di- thousands of migrants are the Children and MOAS,
ers refused Monday to sign ganizations that didn’t sign rector Gabriele Eminente brought to Italy each year agreed to the rules.
onto a new code of con- the code would risk being said in Rome that the hu- after being rescued in the Save the Children said its
duct drafted by Italy’s Inte- denied access to Italian manitarian group refused central Mediterranean af- ship, Vos Hestia, already
rior Ministry for non-govern- ports. to accept allowing armed ter embarking from Libya operates “in great part” in
mental organizations rescu- Humanitarian groups police aboard, saying in unseaworthy smugglers’ accordance with the new
ing migrants at sea, as Italy sought changes in the gov- the presence of weapons boats. code.
seeks to increase security ernment’s draft, objecting “conflicts with the princi- The aid groups say allega- Also refusing to sign were
amid the unrelenting flow especially to rules requiring pals we have throughout tions that they are coop- the German groups Jugend
of migrant arrivals. that they allow armed po- the world.” erating with migrant smug- Rettet and Sea Watch,
Italy’s government drafted lice to board their vessels According to the Europe- glings make their risky job which both argued that
the code after allegations and that they don’t trans- an Union’s border patrol even more dangerous by the rules violate the law of
emerged that some non- fer migrants to other ships, agency Frontex, NGOs ac- undermining trust in their the sea, according to the
profits were cooperating but bring them back to port count for some 40 percent work.Just two of about news agency ANSA. q