In recent days, multiple actions have taken place against the plan by the French and British governments to open a new administrative detention centre (CRA) at the border.
A CRA is a prison to lock up undocumented people before deporting them out of the country.
This project was announced in March 2023 following yet another agreement between the two countries to militarise the border. All over Europe, states are tightening border policies (floating prisons in the south of England, an increasing number of detention centres: Germany, Belgium, France, Italy, etc.).
The police are organised at the international level, but so are our sources of inspiration: starting fires to shut down detention centres (like at the CPR in Turin in February-March 2023), escapes, prevented deportations… It is possible to resist and attack.
The actions, carried out in multiple locations near the Franco-British border in recent days, aim to intensify the mobilisation against all detention centres, here and elsewhere. The people detained are the first to act in this daily struggle. These actions are in solidarity with them. Here are some recent examples:
– Around 50 people made a noise demonstration in support of the prisoners of the CRA of Coquelles, near Calais.
– A demonstration of more than 200 people against detention centres took place in Calais this Sunday 17.09.
– Numerous banner drops above the A16 motorway: “detention centre neither here nor elsewhere”, “No borders, no nations, stop deportations”, “Papers for all”…
– Tags appeared in Lille at the head office of Vinci Immobilier, a company which profits from the construction of prisons : « stop building CRAs and prisons »
Distribution of leaflets to denounce the new Franco-British CRA project in different places on the border.
Against all forms of surveillance, control and detention, we must not remain indifferent! Let us increase actions and put pressure on all those who profit from the military-industrial complex: companies and airlines (https://abaslescra.noblogs.org/files/2022/09/boites-collabo-CRA.cleaned.pdf), politicians of all colours who make electoral gains from social poverty…
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