Moroccan Detainees Face Uncertain Future in Toulouse Detention Center Amid Border Closures

In total, 24 individual requests for the release of undocumented foreigners imprisoned in the Administrative Detention Center (CRA) of Cornebarrieu have been received by the judge of freedoms and detention in Toulouse, at the initiative of the Cimade, supported by a dozen lawyers from the ADE, from the Toulouse bar, reports Franceinfo.

The Cimade and the lawyers of the Association for the Defense of Foreigners (ADE) have indicated that the detention of foreigners is outside its legal framework. "We lock up... to lock up," denounces Léo Clauss, a lawyer for the Cimade at the CRA in Cornebarrieu. Since the first confinement, precisely on March 17, 444 people have been imprisoned in the center, but only 51 have been expelled. Since March 27, there has been no return to Morocco, one of the countries whose detainees are in the majority.

And yet, the prefectures continue to fill this center where the Cimade, in a press release published on Wednesday, deplores the non-compliance with basic health safety measures.

On Saturday, the Cimade and the ADE learned of the rejection by order, without a hearing, of all the requests presented on Thursday. In this regard, the Cimade and the ADE plan to appeal the judge’s decision this week.