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They have been on hunger strike for two weeks. A priest and two activists intend to denounce the poor reception conditions and the harassment, according to them daily, of migrants in Calais (Pas-de-Calais). The government sends a mediator there on Wednesday October 27.
Activists begin their seventeenth day of hunger strike, in a church in Calais (Pas-de-Calais), around the priest Philippe Demeestere. The man of the Church denounces the living conditions of migrants. The 72-year-old priest has spent his life with the homeless. For him, the situation is intolerable. “I see reality through the eyes of a child I saw in the jungle [de Calais], shivering with cold, barely dressed … A child’s gaze that makes me consider that I carry the two worlds that we do“, currency Philippe Demeestere.
These activists demand respect for the winter truce for migrants, a condition for stopping their hunger strike. According to the maritime prefecture, more and more migrants are trying to reach England via the Channel. More than 12,000 between January and July, three times more than in 2020 during the same period. The striking priest awaits a concrete response from the government. This last will send a mediator on site on Wednesday October 27.