Housed since October in a center made available by the Eclaireurs et Eclaireuses de France in the outskirts of Rennes, a hundred migrants invested a gymnasium in Rennes on Saturday. The action took place on the sidelines of a demonstration in support of exiled people. “The occupation of the Poterie gymnasium raises questions about the sheltering of people who until now had more suitable accommodation solutions, even if they were precarious”, indicates the town hall.
Without an accommodation solution for around sixty refugees, the members of the migrant support association are occupying the pottery gymnasium to allow them not to spend the night outside. pic.twitter.com/6eLHOCNlse
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The Rennes municipality, which is asking for this occupation to end “quickly”, announced that it had seized the prefecture “so that solutions can be found as soon as possible for these people”. According to a press release from the migrant aid association Utopia 56, “a hundred people, including 42 children, without accommodation, requisition a gymnasium in the city of Rennes so as not to spend the night and the winter. homeless “. “Everything is going well, people are a little anxious but it’s hot compared to where we were,” said Yann Manzi, founder of Utopia 56.
The prefecture will examine the situation of each of the people
The Ille-et-Vilaine prefecture said on Saturday morning that it was assuming “all its responsibilities in compliance with the law”. “The State has requested a precise list of the persons concerned (…). Depending on each person’s administrative situation and vulnerability, the State is in fact ready to find lasting solutions, whether in terms of emergency accommodation, measures dedicated to asylum seekers or the preparation for the return for people who are destined to leave French territory because they do not benefit from a right of residence there”, underlined the prefecture.
“Every evening, in Ille-et-Vilaine, the State finances the sheltering of 1,450 people, in permanent facilities or in hotels, for an amount which reached more than 10 million euros in 2021. “, she specifies.