The foreigners detained at Vincennes: "One feels one can't do more"

Resistance movements, hunger strikes, starting fires, auto-mutilations.., "I can't do more," admitted a man from the Maghreb showing his gashed and sutured hands. The man who spoke was behind bars surmounted with barbed wire in one of the two centers of administrative retention (CRA) in Vincennes.

The League of the Rights of Man, the Magistrates' Union and the Lawyer's Union fo France announced on Monday, February 25, the launching of their clean inquiry on the violence arising in the center of retention in Vincennes on the night from 11 to 12 February. A double inquiry, both administrative and judiciary, of the Inspector-General of the services is already underway. The Prefecture of Police confirmed Monday night that a police officer used his taser.

Sixty policemen intervened in a muscular manner, according to the Cimade [GAB- a ecumenical service of aid for migrant workers]. Two were kept back, wounded, before being hospitalized. (AFP photo)

At the basis of repeated tension over several weeks, the Prefecture of Police accepted, on February 21, to be transparent and open to the world the gates of the two buildings situated in the woods of Vincennes, where strangers facing expulsion are locked up. As of Tuesday, there are 133 men in CRA 2, and 127 in CRA 1, where the tension is particularly palpable. It is there that in a previous week, in the night of 11 to 12 February, in retaliation to a order to leave the TV room at 11:30 p.m., the "retenus" set fire to drapes, burning two chambers. The next night, several more dozens refused to eat and sent their complaints in a letter addressed to the leadership of the prefecture. They explained their gesture by "the lack of things, the food, the unheated rooms, no hot water, the hygiene, the provocations by security, and the most important thing, the loss of our liberty."…

"I can't do more," admitted a man from the Maghreb showing his gashed and sutured hands.

You could go back to Tunisia.

I'm just sayin' is all...

2 posted on 02/26/2008 6:19:59 PM PST by End Times Sentinel (In Memory of my Dear Friend Henry Lee II)

Setting fire to drapes is arson.

Arson of an occupied building is attempted murder.

The filth should have been machine-gunned on the spot.

-ccm

3 posted on 02/26/2008 9:13:17 PM PST by ccmay (Too much Law; not enough Order.)

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