Mayors From Seven Major French Cities Write Open Letter Saying They Are Overwhelmed By The Flow Of Migrants
Posted: December 20, 2017 Filed under: France, Global, Health and Social Issues, Mediasphere, Terrorism | Tags: Alain Juppé, Asylum, Bordeaux, Grenoble, Illegal Immigrants, Jihadism, Jihadists, Lille, Mass Migration, Nantes, Paris, Rennes, Strasbourg, Toulouse, Welfare Leave a comment
Local chiefs from Nantes, Lille, Bordeaux, Grenoble, Rennes, Toulouse and Strasbourg wrote an open letter to Parisian officials to ask for relief from the ‘extreme tension’ caused by migrant arrivals.
- The mayors from large French cities wrote open letter to Le Monde newspaper
- In it they stressed their settlements were going through a ‘social emergency’
- They said there has been a ‘massive rise in the demand for asylum’ recently
- To relieve ‘extreme tension’ on services, they added, a national plan was needed
Iain Burns reports: The mayors of seven large French cities have appealed to the national government to save them from the ‘social emergency’ of huge numbers of migrants.
Local chiefs from Nantes, Lille, Bordeaux, Grenoble, Rennes, Toulouse and Strasbourg wrote an open letter to Parisian officials to beg for relief from the ‘extreme tension’ caused by the arrival of people seeking a new home.
The mayors – including this year’s presidential hopeful Alain Juppé (from Bordeaux) – explained that there had been a ‘massive rise in the demand for asylum’, with ‘several thousand’ migrants arriving every month.
The letter comes just over a year after the relocation of several thousands migrants from the Calais Jungle in Northern France.
The mayors – including this year’s presidential hopeful Alain Juppé (pictured) – explained that there had been a ‘massive rise in the demand for asylum’, with ‘several thousand’ migrants arriving every month
Local chiefs from Nantes, Lille, Bordeaux, Grenoble, Rennes, Toulouse and Strasbourg wrote an open letter to Parisian officials to help relieve the ‘extreme tension’ caused by the arrival of people seeking a new home. Pictured: Migrants leaving the Calais Jungle last year
Writing to Le Monde, they added: ‘A social emergency. An urgent solidarity. [Our cities] are, on this subject as on others, on the front line.
‘We can not, we must not, resign ourselves to the human, social and health drama of uprooting migrants. Every month, several thousand people arrive in our cities.
‘Integrating those recognized as refugees and helping those who have lost their right of asylum who still remain in our territory is a major issue.’
The letter further explained that the crisis – of ‘a proportion never before known’ – was leading to a ‘saturation’ of core services like housing and welfare despite a ‘steady increase’ in arrivals … (read more)
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