Two hundred people in the streets of Nîmes to defend migrants and unaccompanied minors

À Nîmes, la journée internationale des migrants a commencé en chansons. Midi Libre – C.R.

Les jeunes de l’association AMMF ont participé à ce rassemblement. Midi Libre – C.R.

For International Migrants Day, nearly two hundred people gathered this Wednesday, December 18 in the evening in Nîmes, in front of Carré d'Art, for the migrants' march.

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Nearly two hundred people took part in a march on the evening of Wednesday, December 18, in Nîmes, as part of International Migrants Day, organized by around forty associations. The evening began with songs and Manu Chao, in front of Carré d’art. All the activists of Nîmes du Gard (40 associations, collectives, unions and political parties) joined the site and then Place Saint-Charles, with the Association of Migrants of France (AMMF) at the head of this gathering. “I have been in Nîmes for five years,” says this young man from Ivory Coast who lives with his partner and two children. I work but it is very difficult to get our papers renewed. If I no longer have a job, I don't know what we are going to do. We are being pushed into precariousness.” “The receipts are blocked at the prefecture” , confirms Koné Mamery, the president of the AMMF. We are facing a wall.”. The association recently obtained an appointment at the prefecture and hopes to have been heard.

“For a year, it's been a disaster”

” Residence permits are very complicated today,confirms Françoise Augereau, the president of Cimade. The prefecture is overwhelmed. It's frightening. It started with Covid. And for a year now, it's been a disaster. People no longer have work and are on the streets. They no longer get their residence permits renewed. They no longer have housing. For them, it's total destitution. And I'm not even talking about minors.”

” Immigration is not a problem. Making people believe that is the cause of violence and inequality. It is the cause of the dehumanization of society as a whole… We particularly reject the situation of unaccompanied minors for whom the State, the department and the judicial system are responsible. In the Gard, contrary to what the law requires, many sleep on the streets and are not in school” recalled Marc Livecchi (Apti) who spoke at this gathering. “The lack of shelter, the non-recognition of minority status, the excessively long delays in judicial decisions aggravate the difficulties and demonstrate a discriminatory policy. And we also refuse the creation of undocumented immigrants that is constituted by the delays of the Gard prefecture in responding to requests for residence permits or renewals, thus depriving foreigners of work, social rights and housing.”