a quarter of foreigners placed in detention centers leave prison, according to a report by five associations

The directives of Gérald Darmanin on the placement of foreigners in an irregular situation in administrative detention centers (CRA) have caused an upsurge in confinement after a prison sentence. This is what assert, Wednesday, April 26, associations for the defense of migrants.

The annual report of these five associations, including Cimade and France Terre d’Asile, specifies that in 2022, nearly a quarter of foreigners (26.6%) in CRA were placed in detention directly upon their release from prison. in the 25 CRAs in France (including four overseas). This proportion increased over the year due to the directives of the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin.

“A trivialized recourse to detention”

The deportation of foreign offenders is one of the priorities of a government immigration bill, which has however been taken off the parliamentary agenda. In a declared hunt “disturbance of public order”migrant advocates have since lamented “a trivialized use of detention, too often abusive and sometimes in unworthy conditions”.

The CRAs identify more people who could have taken advantage of a right of residence on French territory, locked up for reasons sometimes “derisory”such as looks “suspicious” around you or a spit on the sidewalk, list the associations.

“For almost everything and anything, we will now justify detention for an alleged threat to public order”, a notion that remains unclear, comments to AFP Dalia Frantz, responsible for retention at Cimade. And to specify that this tendency “continues” since early 2023.