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Calais - Activists Disrupt CRS Raid on Eritrean House

Calais Migrant Solidarity | 31.08.2009 21:23 | Anti-racism | Migration | Repression | South Coast

Calais - Activists Disrupt CRS Raid on Eritrean House

Last night (30/31st August) at around 9.00pm the CRS made a raid on the Eritrean
house. Four vans including a police “snatch van” descended on the
property. Activists on the scene were able to bear witness to them
detaining three Eritreans, as well as emptying bottles of cooking oil over
migrants’ beds and clothing. Other activists were able to get inside the
property and follow the police out. Enough of a scene was created with
activists darting around the police heckling and obstructing that they
left without making any further arrests.

Later that evening activists witnessed the CRS arresting two Pashtu
Afghanis near the Eritrean house. The two activists disrupted proceedings
by engaging the refugees in conversation, shining torches on the police
and calling them bullying fascists, to which they seemed to take offence.
A snatch van arrived with a third young Pashtun already inside and the CRS
bundled the other two in with him. The two vans then headed back to the
Eritrean house and attempted to arrest further migrants but they all
produced satisfactory documents. Activists were on the scene and slowed
down operations by strolling in front of the vans, heckling, shining
torches in the faces of the police and warning the Eritreans gathered
around the nearby house. One CRS officer lost his temper and began
violently shoving activists until he was given a stern talking-to by his
Commander, to the delight of the three Pashtuns watching the spectacle
from inside the snatch van. Clearly struggling the CRS harassed an
Albanian near the railway bridge but had to let him go when he produced
his papers. Unknown to activists the CRS then attempted to raid the
Ethiopian house across town. This time they were more successful in
scaling the 8’ wall designed to keep Ethiopians out, and searched for
migrants with flashlights. However, no-one was found and no arrests (or
beatings) took place. The cops then finished their shift and left without
managing to fill their evening arrest quota. All in all a good night’s
work.

Unfortunately they managed to ruin this tranquility by raiding the
Sudanese jungle early in this morning (31st) and arrested five Sudanese.
Hopefully we will see them come back safe and sound within 24 hours.

If you have time to go to Calais and be part of supporting migrants and challenging the state repression, check out the website - the 'what you can do' category tells you how to get there and what to bring. Or send an email and someone will get back to you.

Calais Migrant Solidarity
- e-mail: calaisolidarity@gmail.com
- Homepage: http://www.calaismigrantsolidarity.wordpress.com

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Another way you can help

01.09.2009 09:54

...Bring noise making stuff like whistles, air horns or attack alarms. These are proving hard to find in Calais. They are useful in drawing attention to police brutality, especially when occurs in a public place.

Also bring cameras if you can.

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