“The people in the camps are not violent people”, according to Claire Millot of the Salam association

Guest, Sunday on franceinfo, Claire Millot from the migrant aid association Salam, discusses the shooting death of a migrant near a camp in Loon-Plage, in the North.

“The people in the camps are not violent people, they are people who fled violence in their countries”declared, Sunday February 4, on franceinfo Claire Millot, of the migrant aid association Salam, while a migrant was shot dead in the night from Saturday to Sunday and a second injured, near the camp from Loon-Plage (North).

According to Claire Millot, this kind of settling of scores within a migrant camp is “extremely rare”. “In general, these are stories of smugglers, between smugglers or with smugglers. At the moment, it is more questions of control of beach areas or dunes,” she explained.

“It’s very rare that the police are able to trace the shooter”, also explained Claire Millot. Moreover, “there is an omerta which is completely legitimate” because “someone who lives in a camp, even if he has the idea of ​​who shot, has no interest in denouncing his smuggler because he paid thousands of euros, and if he sends the guy in jail, even if he’s a terrible person, his money is gone.”

However, according to the figure of aid to migrants for more than ten years, “on the Dunkirk side, we have a lot of Kurds, but we have Afghans, Sudanese. It’s a very mixed population and the communities risk clashing over questions of passage”.