(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #245 - Europe
Fortress: Let's open the borders (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
At a time when the United States believes stop immigration from the south by building a
wall and where boatloads of migrants and migrant perish repressed off Australia, Europe is
not standing still and continues its xenophobic policy continent under siege. ---- In
early October, unusual posters covered the walls of some large cities such as Paris
Roubaix or to alert foreigners and foreign undocumented multiplication of police checks to
be held from October 13 to 26 in the whole of Europe . It is the operation Mos Maiorum
launched by the Council of the Union European. ---- This "Joint Police Operation" in
coordination with Europol and Frontex, organized throughout the EU and the Schengen area
of massive identity checks at strategic points to anyone who could look like a stranger .
All States were invited to participate and mobilize their various police forces.
The objective was to update the data migration, new roads, modus operandi, to collect
personal data holders and holders of false documents, applicant and asylum seekers and
smugglers. It was also to cultivate the joint work between the Member States and the
partnership with third countries working with Frontex and must increase border controls,
even those that lock in their camps, on behalf of the European Migrants and unwanted
migrants and who are asked to prevent their own citizens and nationals to leave the country.
The canvas
It is expected that the results of this hunt abroad to be released on December 11 to
"Borders Working Group" (more specifically responsible for wrong) and participating States.
This operation, which is not the first, is part of a network policy monitoring and
information for which was created in 2013, a new appendix of Frontex, Eurosur, the System
European Monitoring borders. It aims to strengthen the control of land, sea and air
external borders of the Schengen area (and some accomplices such as Ireland, the United
Kingdom, Iceland, Switzerland and Liechtenstein) with advanced technology (radar ,
sensors, drones, satellites) and allows the sharing of information among all States 24
hours 24. The large canvas covers the Europe that still bunkerise more dark and paranoid,
eyes riveted to each border centimeter, watching the night the source of suspicious heat,
overloaded barcasse flowing slowly. Echoing the fanatical defenders of a biological
substrate - or cultural - European , it nourishes with billions fantasy of the invasion,
at the expense of human rights. And at the price of human drama.
Media coverage of the tragedy
After the sinking of 366 people off Lampedusa, October 3, 2013, and another 200 days
later, it was no longer possible to ignore the plight of refugee-es. These, not rescued by
patrol Frontex, buildings of Malta or NATO ... are mostly by fishermen, then prosecuted
for "complicity of illegal immigration," when they do not perish by thousands in the
Mediterranean in general indifference. At the same time, Italy is the subject of a
conviction by the Court European of Human Rights for having driven boats to their original
coastline (including Libya), a prohibited practice but then habitual from the Italian
Navy. The Italian government to calm the international public opinion, then launched the
operation Mare Nostrum who must rescue migrants and migrants at sea and take them to the
south of Italy. Several military vessels will travel the Mediterranean for a year,
collecting about 100 000 people. But this operation does not guarantee the fate of rescued
nor recognition of their refugee status-es, nor has it been able to avoid drowning 3,000
between January and September 2014 (estimate of the High Commissioner for Refugees ).
Hot potato
Mare Nostrum expires on 1 November 2014 and is replaced by a more Frontex called Triton
operation. A fleet of small ships, unsuitable to collect hundreds of passengers and
passengers of each boat will sail the Mediterranean and, as in previous operations of that
agency, will only divert migrant migrants to more dangerous channels (see box below). The
carnage will therefore continue. The refugee influx es caused by Mare Nostrum , led Italy
to defy the rules of the Dublin III, which requires the first country in Europe where
migrants and migrants set foot, to make their decision fingerprint. This "tracing" has the
effect that this will be the only country where they can apply for asylum and detained in
any other country, they will be sent back there. Suffice to say that this agreement poses
to fool Italy, like Greece, particular weight than other states in Europe are not ready
for distribution. Italy had to take fingerprints amid protests States Europe , including
France and Britain have understood that many of the unsaved people (especially those
coming from Eritrea, Sudan, Afghanistan, Syria or Iraq) aim to cross the Channel.
Grouped mainly in Calais at the time of Sangatte, closed in 2002, the repressive policy
(stalking, squats deportation camps) merely shifts the problem and part of the exile-es
(see box).
From the Mediterranean to the Channel
But their number has increased to about 2 000 to 2 500 following the operation Mare
Nostrum (estimate based on the distribution of meals). The National Front does not fail to
make a field day situation, riding a xenophobic speech that is free, especially during the
demonstration on October 13, bringing together hunters, farmers, traders and even a union,
FO Police. Attacks against migrants and migrants are increasing, the press turns against
them accused of mounting insecurity in Calais. Marine Le Pen supports, herself, ten days
later by moving it. After signing in September of the Franco-British agreement that
provides amplification of security arrangements around the harbor and its approaches,
Bernard Cazeneuve recently inaugurated November 3 yet another device humanitarian
pretensions. This is a day center for 400 "vulnerable exiles" (meaning women and children,
men and children-es-es isolated by exclusion), tinkered in an old summer day camp (without
heating) to an hour's walk from the city center without resting place. A ghetto out of
sight where will be distributed one meal a day. Upon opening, it is expected that the
squat Galou and Ti oxide camp will be severely threatened with deportation despite the
active defense of Calais support associations of migrants.
Who benefits?
In addition to the benefit derived by the employers of labor and exploitable captive posed
undocumented, besides the mafia smugglers who exists and thrives thanks to the policy of
the European fortress , the security market and border surveillance proves fruitful
market. Frontex, which counts the EU Member States and third countries, proves to be a
subscriber of choice. Present at many fairs armaments, aerospace and advanced security and
imaging industries, the agency European , courted by industry plays broker between donors
(states) and merchants.
Freedom of movement and installation for all
With the support of the ideological fundamentals of the extreme right and the values of
liberal capitalism that Europe barricades every day behind its borders. She woos the brown
plague and its allies always, large industrial, including arming and safe. We must open
borders, all boundaries. This is the only solution fair and realistic. But this measure
will be really satisfactory if one also attacks reasons for migration, mostly suffered,
fruits of war, persecution or poverty, which is not unrelated to the organized looting of
the country South by the North.
Chloe (AL 93)
HOW MUCH DOES THAT COST?
Frontex: Annual budget 2014 = 85 million (for now ...) Monitoring of EU borders since
2007: 2 billion euros
Eurosur: EUR 224 million from 2014 to 2020
Mare Nostrum: EUR 9 million per month
Operation Triton 2.9 million per month
Franco-British agreement of September 2014: EUR 15 million over 3 years.
Passing through France from West Africa via a neighboring country with fake passport with
visa = 7 000 EUR
Visit to France from China: Adult = 15 000 EUR; Child = 9000 euros
STALKING: MORE DANGER, DEATH MORE
Frontex operations increase the risks taken by migrants and migrant diverting raw roads.
The Hera operation conducted in the Canary Islands in 2006 was down 69% to the arrival of
migrants, but they have moved to the Balearic Islands and southern Spain. A new operation
it depresses landings by 23% but the crossings of the Mediterranean from Libya to Malta or
Lampedusa (closer to Libya that Italy) explode. And when the operations are as Poseidon in
the Aegean, it is the land crossings between Turkey and Greece are increasing.
Same causes, same effects on French territory with the closure of Sangatte, hunting in the
jungle of Calais refugees, amplification of monitoring the Channel Tunnel and
sophistication of detection means (CO2 probe, beats cores or thermal). The exiled es en
route to the UK have had to adapt to survive even harsher and transition strategies even
more dangerous. Always present in Calais but Grande-Synthe T?teghem Steenvoorde Tatinghem,
Norrent-Fontes, Angres (etc.), one meets in Paris to Cherbourg (where they were previously
few), Dieppe or Ouistreham. Settlements develop along highways (A16 and A28), near the
parking areas to mount das trucks, hoping that their destination will be good, otherwise,
it is the leap into the void, sometimes fatal.
Otherwise, there is proof plastic bag over his head to foil CO2 detectors, with death by
asphyxiation often appointment.
IDENTITY CARD OF UNWANTED
Name: Frontex
Name: Agency European for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders.
Nickname: The armed wing of Europe
Date of birth: 25 November 2004
Home: Warsaw
Occupation: coordination of joint surveillance operations. The agency plans so
geographically localized operations to input points on the land, air and sea routes used
by migrants. It organizes "joint flights" ie expellees charter from different countries,
although grouped expulsions are prohibited.
She works with neighboring countries and countries of origin. It intercepts the land or
sea borders. Opacity allows no control over respect for fundamental rights.
Income: Annual budget multiplied by 8 in 5 years. 2006 = EUR 19 million, 2011 = 118
million, and an extension of 43.9 million during the Arab Spring ...
Material: 22 aircraft, 113 ships, 26 helicopters and hundreds of high-tech monitoring
devices such as thermal cameras, carbon dioxide sensor, heart beat sensors, radars,
drones, etc.
Employees: 300 permanent employees.
For more information, see Libertarian Alternative No. 207 in June 2011, "Migration
Policies: Big Brother to Olympus" .
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