VICTORY Asylum seekers were excluded by the prefecture of Paca from certain emergency accommodation arrangements to which they were entitled, leading to the condemnation of the State by the Administrative Court of Appeal
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Marseille November 15, 2011 – The prefecture of Bouches-du-Rhône. — P.MAGNIEN/20 MINUTES
Asylum seekers excluded from certain emergency accommodation arrangements to which they were entitled: the Marseilles administrative court of appeal condemned the State for having illegally restricted the reception criteria in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region, according to a decision consulted on Thursday.
Several NGOs, including the Abbé-Pierre Foundation, M Doctors of the World and La Cimade, had taken legal action in 2018, denouncing new criteria of “vulnerability”” ; then applied by the State in this region of south-eastern France to allow asylum seekers to access a service says “Service plus asylum seeker” including, among other things, accommodation and social support.
Illegal sorting
According to the contested decision, only families “with children ; aged less than three years, pregnant women over eight months with a medical certificate. the support” or “women victims of human trafficking or domestic violence” as well as people with a health problem. very serious had access to this reception device.
A “tri”” denounced as illegal by these NGOs, who pointed out that these provisions have “led to deprive of accommodation and to maintain at the street of many people, including very young children.