Falmarès is a young poet and apprentice at TAN – Falmares
- Mohamed Bangoura, alias Falmarès, is a young migrant poet threatened with deportation.
- The marks of support are flocking to demand the regularization of the young man, who has already published several collections.
- Monday evening, the prefecture announced that it was giving him six months to carry out a new process.
He says he began to write to “relieve himself” but in recent days, the words he has received have helped him especially to keep hope. Since this weekend, the mobilization has grown around Falmarès, a young poet Nantes, who also lived in Brittany, today threatened with expulsion. Last week,
this 19-year-old Guinean called Mohamed Bangoura in civil reports having received from the Loire-Atlantique prefecture an obligation to leave French territory (OQTF) within a month. An “absurd” and “unfair” decision which motivated her to start a hunger strike, he announces
on Facebook.
Since then, marks of support, especially from the associative world and culture, have flocked to support the young man, some of his texts, very noticed, are even published in several collections, baptized Reliefs (ed. Les Mandarines). Two candidates in the regional elections of Pays-de-la-Loire, Matthieu Orphelin (environmentalist) and Guillaume Garot (PS), were also moved by the case of the one who left his country in 2017, and challenged the prefect. In a tweet, the president of Semitan did the same, since in addition to being a poet, Mohamed is “a serious apprentice of the maintenance workshops of the TAN, which is intended for the preparation of a BTS in alternation”, writes Pascal Bolo.
The word falmarès#GIVELEMAX #poetry #falmarès pic.twitter.com/G68WE7jLHV
– Falmarès (@ Falmars1) April 25, 2021
The prefecture gives a period of six months
Launched by its publisher, a petition collected this Monday afternoon more than 3,200 signatures. She asks for the young man to be regularized and recalls that Falmarès was appointed
“Ambassador of peace” by a Franco-Swiss association, but also that he has just been selected to be part of the jury for the “Etonnants Voyageurs” festival in Saint-Malo. “There are other anonymous Falmarès, adds Gaspard Norrito, president of the young man’s support committee, joined by 20 minutes. We ask the prefect that the other OQTFs decided unfairly in recent times be also re-examined. “
Monday at the end of the day, the prefecture responded to requests from 20 minutes. She explains that she refused Falmarès’ residence permit because he is not able to “prove the authenticity of his civil status”, a procedure to be carried out at the Guinean consulate. She announces that she has decided to issue her “a six-month receipt”, a document that will allow her to stay in France during this period.