Sanoussy Dramé, a 34-year-old undocumented Guinean, died in his tiny windowless apartment in Béziers

Sanoussy Dramé est décédé à l’âge de 34 ans.

Le Guinéen était en France depuis 13 ans. ll est décédé à l’âge de 34 ans dans le deux-pièces, où il vivait avec son épouse et leur enfant de 3 ans. Il attendait depuis plus de deux ans de recevoir son titre de séjour.

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As this Wednesday, December 18, marks International Migrants Day, Jean-Luc Turpin, the director of Cimade, recalls that at the end of October, Sanoussy Dramé, 34, died. The Guinean had been living in Béziers for over thirteen years in a tiny two-room apartment with no windows. After ten years in France, he had applied for a residence permit. It had been refused, but an appeal to the administrative court had allowed the prefecture's decision to be overturned.

“The sub-prefecture issued Sanoussy with provisional residence certificates without the right to work, pending the meeting of a residence permit commission,” Jean-Luc Turpin regrets. We had been waiting for this summons for two and a half years. When Sanoussy died, I went to comfort Aminata, his wife… Sanoussy was lying on the ground, in front of the front door. He had to be stepped over and not touched because his death, “unexplained”, required sending his body to the Montpellier forensic institute.”

Impossible to get an appointment with the cardiologist

Looking back, the president of Cimade could not help but think about the life of Sanousssy Dramé and his little family “in this apartment, his intermittent work, in the evening, selling burgers and pizzas… I also could not help but think about his appointment at the health center, the week before his death. He had been advised to see a cardiologist, but he had not been able to get an appointment.”

And Jean-Philippe Turpin worries about ” Aminata who has no papers or resources and for Mamadou, their son, who is only 3 years old. What will become of them ?”

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