Together, it’s nicer: Ten illegal foreigners held at the administrative detention center in the port city of Sète (Hérault) escaped during the night from Friday to Saturday, but one of them was found on Saturday, we learned on Sunday from the prefecture.
Following this event, initially revealed by “ France Blue » and everyday life Free Middaya meeting will take place this week with the “interdepartmental police management” in order to “study the ways and means of better securing this detention space” specified the Prefecture.
Leak through the roofs
Securing the Sète CRA is “essential, since it is one of the priorities for combating irregular immigration” which “requires effective deportations” at the border, insisted the prefecture. The ten people “flew through the roofs and attics. Then, they jumped on the roof of the registry to reach the street,” explained Ghislain Marty, delegate of the Alliance police union in Hérault.
According to Cimade and France terre d’Asile, 46,955 people were locked up in CRAs in 2023, compared to 43,565 in 2022. In April, 10 illegal foreigners escaped from the Oissel CRA in Seine-Maritime. A year ago, in April 2023, an escape had already taken place at the CRA in Sète, with the flight of eight people.