On March 06, 2024, in the context of preparations for the Paris Olympic Games, the French police expelled 400 migrants from their informal camp without offering them alternative accommodation. The Utopia 56 association denounced a “pre-Olympic manhunt“.
On February 28, 2024, Statewatch published an article denouncing Civipol’s (highly lucrative) public-private conglomerate. This French institution (and by extension european) acts as a neocolonial artifact in France’s relations with West Africa, according to StateWatch. Civipol perpetuates the logic of colonialism with a techno-security approach applied to migratory circulations.
On February 22, 2024, the investigative media Mediapart reported acts of discrimination against people exiled in Pas-de-Calais. These people who try to cross the Channel find themselves excluded from emergency accommodation centres due to “national preference” practices.
On February 21, 2024, Mediapart published a blog post on the story of migrants in the northern coast of France. In 2023, 35,800 individuals failed in their attempt to migrate to the United Kingdom from the French coast.
On February 17, 2024, the former director of Frontex, Fabrice Leggeri, announced that for the European elections in June 2024, he will be third on the list of the far-right National Rally (RN) party. According to accusatory figures from the newspaper Le Monde, during Leggeri’s tenure at the head of Frontex, between 2015 and 2022, more than 22,000 people died in the Mediterranean.
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