The incomprehension this Tuesday at the laundry Le Lavoir des Causses in Massegros where the young Moussa Tambadou, 18 years old had been welcomed as an apprentice in September 2020. The young man who had been under house arrest in Mende since the summer of 2021 was arrested and sent to the Toulouse administrative detention center with a view to his deportation. “The Administration assumes that the papers of young Africans in general are false. There, she challenged an identity paper to him on the pretext that there was no date of birth of the parents. explains Marie-Anne Colombain, member of RESF 48 (Education Without Borders Network) which followed him. Except that there, he had just obtained his passport of the consulate. We don’t understand.”
“A lot of mess”
Equally upset, Brice Saint-Pierre, the owner of the Lavoir des Causses, the laundry which had allowed the young Malian to have an apprenticeship contract. “It really is a mess. He is wasting his life when he had the opportunity and he had seized it, to become French. He has no family in Mali. I no longer know how to address this administration which is heartless. He returned to France illegally, I hear him, but he is not a delinquent, nor a terrorist. He showed involvement and integration in my company, but not only that. In society too. I don’t understand this lack of heart, especially between Christmas and New Years. It’s not just papers in life! “Brice Saint-Pierre hopes that the health situation will allow Moussa not to be returned immediately to his country of origin and that he can lodge an appeal with Cimade at the detention center. In July 2021, the head of company had launched a petition in support of its apprentice and received nearly 30,000 signatures.