An association files a complaint after the discovery of an unidentified blue liquid in a water tank for migrants in the North

A complaint was filed after the discovery of a blue liquid in a tank of drinking water made available to migrants by an NGO in a camp in Loon-Plage, near Dunkirk (North), we learned on Friday June 21 from associations, confirming information from Release.

This liquid was found on June 14, reported the NGO Roots, which helps migrants present on the coast of northern France awaiting an attempt to cross to England. The association filed a complaint. Roots said he gave the police a sample of the liquid for analysis.

According to Claire Millot, from the Salam association, which distributes meals to exiles in this area, 300 to 400 people currently live in this vast camp. A water point was installed there by the urban community of Dunkirk following the hunger strike of a volunteer from the association at the end of 2023. Improving access to water for migrants was the one of the demands, but, according to Claire Millot, other water points which were to be installed were not. The Roots association, not mandated by the State, has and fills tanks of drinking water in the camp to allow migrants to drink, cook and wash.

“There, it was a blue liquid, so the guys didn’t drink it. But it would have been colorless and a poison, even a not very violent poison which just gives a stomach ache, in the sanitary conditions in which they live , it could have been dramatic”, Claire Millot is alarmed. According to her, this type of act constitutes “a first” on the Loon-Plage camp, but she fears that this type of facts “multiply itself”.