• Segregare e punire: il disegno politico brutale dentro il “decreto Cutro”

    Nonostante la pletora di emendamenti il quadro del provvedimento governativo appare definito: centri informali chiusi, procedure accelerate, smantellamento della protezione speciale, ostacoli alla conversione dei permessi di soggiorno in permessi per attività lavorativa. “Una strategia illegale e sconsiderata”, osserva Michele Rossi

    Per comprendere il testo del decreto legge 10 marzo 2023 (https://www.senato.it/japp/bgt/showdoc/frame.jsp?tipodoc=Resaula&leg=19&id=1375360&part=doc_dc-allegatoa_aa), il cosiddetto “decreto Cutro”, occorre applicare con grande concentrazione le parole d’ordine gramsciane circa il pessimismo dell’intelligenza e l’ottimismo della volontà (A. Gramsci, Quaderni dal carcere, Einaudi, 2014). Pessimismo dell’intelligenza perché siamo certamente di fronte al più violento e invasivo tentativo di sovvertimento di alcuni fondamentali istituti costituzionali, democratici e sociali della recente storia repubblicana.

    Non deve in tal senso ingannare il fatto il decreto legge riguardi “solo” migranti e “solo” norme che disciplinano l’immigrazione. È evidente che sottesa a tale disciplina risulta ben visibile un’idea di società e pur producendo un certo accanimento su uno specifico gruppo sociale -i migranti-, l’intento, nemmeno troppo malcelato, è di intervenire sui rapporti tra gruppi sociali: un’operazione di “ortopedia sociale” (M. Focault, Sorvegliare e Punire, Einaudi, 2014) volta a separare, segmentare, disgiungere le comunità, annichilirne la tensione, individuale e collettiva all’integrazione, alla coesione, allo stesso contatto interculturale. Il decreto opera -purtroppo con conseguenze drammatiche- innanzitutto sulle persone migranti, ma colpendo loro, frammenta il corpo sociale intero, con pesanti ripercussioni su tutti. Non si tratta nemmeno più di modelli di accoglienza, addirittura il paradigma securitario credo non basti a interpretarne la ratio e la filosofia di fondo, vedremo, ma di produrre condizioni di tale aleatorietà da rendere ordinario l’arbitrio, la deterrenza sistematica sino all’avveramento della profezia: non è possibile nessuna integrazione, solo marginalità e segregazione.

    Del resto, come proveremo ad argomentare, per immaginare un tale impianto andava raccolto e finalizzato un lungo periodo di semina culturale e nei fatti, la nuova costruzione normativa non poteva che ergersi su fondamenta feroci, una de-soggettivazione del migrante e la criminalizzazione della solidarietà sociale. Nonostante la pletora di emendamenti, frutto di una ben organizzata e accurata strategia, il quadro normativo e anche simbolico e culturale appare definito e spaventoso: centri informali chiusi, procedure accelerate, smantellamento della protezione speciale, ostacoli alla conversione dei permessi di soggiorno in permessi per attività lavorativa. In poche parole: segregare e punire. Una strategia illegale e sconsiderata, che ha chiaramente una pesantissima ricaduta sociale su persone, territori e comunità.

    Impotenza e aggressività
    Il “decreto Cutro” emendato, con le sue novazioni normative, non è infatti preciso ma piuttosto confuso e lo è forse, volutamente. Vuole, questo è chiaro, rendere non più esigibili che quei diritti che non può permettersi di negare apertamente, come (forse) vorrebbe. Per questo sembra più orientato a creare caos, paura e incertezza che a prescrivere e normare un qualsivoglia governo del fenomeno. La lettura consegna abbastanza nitido il tentativo di rendere organico un sistema di deterrenza: non puoi arrivare, se arrivi non puoi stare, se stai verrai recluso, non avrai il permesso di soggiorno e non potrai muoverti, se e quando potrai muoverti non troverai accoglienza, se la troverai avrai pochi servizi e sconterai il tempo che avrai passato ad attendere, non potrai lavorare regolarmente e renderti autonomo, se anche lavori non potrai convertire il permesso in lavoro: preparati ad essere sempre marginale e per te oltre allo sfruttamento, nessuna garanzia e nessun futuro.

    In estrema sintesi, e semplificando (ma nemmeno troppo) questo è il suo contenuto: si rivolge allo straniero e -con l’aggressività dell’impotenza (i promessi blocchi navali non sono stati in effetti realizzati)- promette sofferenza, spaventa, annichilisce il diritto ma anche la speranza. In questo senso la sua banalità non deve ingannare: è tanto più pericoloso quanto studiato frutto di una meticolosa applicazione.

    Dove possiamo colpire siccome non possiamo fermare? Dove possiamo ostacolare siccome non possiamo negare? Stupisce però che il governo abbia applicato la sua logica senza nessuna remora circa le conseguenze, in termini di sofferenza, illegalità, marginalità e quindi del prezzo di un tale impianto sulle vite individuali e sulla società tutta che questa operazione comporterà. Il messaggio sociale, culturale e simbolico è tanto più nascosto nelle pieghe di mille emendamenti quanto più è forte anche in questo senso, e suona come un monito: “Attenzione, siamo disposti a tutto”. Un monito che traduce un senso del potere sulla vita delle persone incondizionato e feroce.

    La “banalità” degli emendamenti
    In tal senso non deve nemmeno ingannare che una ipotesi così invasiva e violenta avvenga attraverso decine e decine di singoli emendamenti, che con il loro aspetto tecnico e procedurale parrebbero offrire una qualche forma di rassicurazione: “Non si può operare un tale sovvertimento attraverso emendamenti”; ossia cancellazioni e aggiunte di commi, frasi, parole. Lo strumento garantisce una operazione meno organica e meno frontale -come fu nel 2018 con i “decreti sicurezza”- e rischia di attenuare l’attenzione pubblica, di distrarla, specie i non addetti ai lavori. È piuttosto da ritenersi che anche questa sia una precisa strategia, già peraltro testata nei mesi scorsi nel processo di conversione del cosiddetto “decreto sbarchi”, in cui una serie di emendamenti che reintroducevano aspetti salienti dei “decreti sicurezza” del 2018 furono presentati in commissione Affari costituzionali dal parlamentare leghista Igor Iezzi, per poi essere dichiarati inammissibili per estraneità di materia e senza i requisiti di necessità e urgenza. Calare attraverso un’azione ordinaria contenuti che ordinari non sono, prevenire una reazione nella società civile, anticiparla sul tempo, farlo senza essere (troppo) visibili, lasciare conseguenze irreparabili.

    Deterrenza e paura reali
    Infine va osservato come il decreto legge che si avvia a essere convertito in legge dello Stato e a sfidarne l’ordinamento, rechi il nome della località dove si è consumata l’ennesima tragedia del mare: Cutro. È sintomatico e paradossale al tempo. Sintomatico perché, riferendosi al luogo di una strage sulla quale il governo ha una responsabilità per l’assenza dei soccorsi, rende manifesta, plastica, l’assenza di ogni limite alla politica di deterrenza imbracciata. In questo senso il nome suona sinistro perché riporta alla mente il mancato soccorso, i morti, lo spostamento delle bare senza interloquire con i familiari, il mancato omaggio della presidente del Consiglio alle vittime, i superstiti lasciati e abbandonati nel Cara di Sant’Anna, piantonati dalle forze dell’ordine. La stessa località è stata però anche -ed in questo senso che il decreto si intitoli Cutro appare invece paradossale- di una grande, continua e spontanea manifestazione di accoglienza dei cutresi e di tante comunità, paesi, amministrazioni della Calabria: dalla veglia delle vittime alla solidarietà ai superstiti, al blocco stradale per impedire il trasferimento coatto delle bare, alla manifestazione nazionale dell’11 marzo e a uno striscione, che, rivolto ai migranti tutti, vittime e superstiti, recitava: “La vostra speranza è la nostra speranza”. Quella speranza che il decreto vuole colpire e che i cittadini di Cutro e della Calabria hanno invece scelto per riconoscere nei migranti ciò che ci unisce. Ed è questo che il decreto, in ultima istanza, vuole intaccare.

    Carichi residuali
    Molto diverse da queste parole, sulla spiaggia di Steccato di Cutro, mentre ancora erano in corso le operazioni di recupero dei corpi delle vittime, quelle del ministro dell’Interno Matteo Piantedosi, che non riconosce “speranza” nei migranti ma una mancanza, precisamente di responsabilità. Lui non si rivolge direttamente ai migranti come invece faranno i cutresi, parla in prima persona, ma traccia un distinguo, morale, un solco incolmabile tra chi come lui, il ministro dice,“educato alla responsabilità” non avrebbe messo in mare, nelle mani degli scafisti i figli e chi lo ha fatto. Questa affermazione ben rappresenta a mio parere, lo spirito che informa il decreto che sopra abbiamo provato a interpretare. La strage, si intende, è colpa di chi, irresponsabile e non educato alla responsabilità, ha messo i figli in mare. La frase ha provocato, per la violenza e brutalità che esprime, forti reazioni; ma non è evidentemente un’esternazione sconsiderata. Le parole del ministro “disumanizzano” i migranti, che lo faccia a fronte dei corpi delle vittime, le rende solo più odiose, ma a ben vedere che cosa vuole trasmettere il ministro? Che non c’è società comune possibile senza “educazione”, senza il rispetto dei figli, senza responsabilità, non c’è futuro possibile “con” i rifugiati, essi non sono persone ma una categoria indistinta, non “educata” alla responsabilità, una minaccia quindi che va contenuta con ogni mezzo. Pochi mesi prima si era infatti rivolto a loro definendoli “carico residuale”. Ci siamo “noi”, categoria morale, e “loro” categoria immorale, che non hanno i medesimi attributi di umanità, che hanno la colpa della strage. Altri esponenti del governo avrebbero infatti parlato in quei giorni di mancato “rispetto di sé e della vita”. E come si può costruire una comunità con chi non ha rispetto “per sé e per la vita”, “responsabilità verso i figli” che appaiono essere i presupposti necessari per una convivenza civile?

    Privare
    Forse più queste affermazioni che singoli emendamenti riescono a restituire, perché ne sono coerente espressione, il disegno complessivo del decreto. Ma appunto vi è coerenza e continuità, le esternazioni pubbliche rompono la patina burocratica e banale del lavoro tecnico di scrittura di commi, articoli e rimandi. Tuttavia quegli emendamenti non potrebbero essere stati scritti se non avendo in mente “carichi residuali”, “non-persone” cui attribuire vigliaccamente la colpa della loro stessa morte per mancanze strutturali che li rendono definitivamente e senza appello, “altro” da noi, corpi estranei, da espellere, impossibilitati a vivere in comunità. Sironi, in un importantissimo saggio sulla tortura (Sironi, Françoise, Psychopathologie des violences collectives, Odile Jacob, 2007), scrive “privare i migranti del riconoscimento dei fattori storici e politici in cui prende corpo la migrazione, significa negare ai migranti quelle dimensioni cruciali nelle negoziazioni identitarie e nelle più ampie trasformazioni sociali che li implicheranno in qualità di nuovi cittadini”. È esattamente questo il punto. Esternazioni e decreti concordano invece su questa linea: negare i fattori storici e politici in cui la migrazione prende corpo. Per prima cosa infatti dobbiamo affermare che il decreto del 10 marzo 2023 lascia invariate due premesse: non sono possibili arrivi legali e canali sicuri e il solo modo di regolarizzarsi resta, nei fatti, l’asilo politico. Però non ci sono “veri” rifugiati e le liste dei Paesi sicuri aumentano irragionevolmente. Una scelta che nega la realtà attuale: guerre, persecuzioni, regioni non più abitabili, più di 100 milioni di rifugiati globali, il trionfo delle organizzazioni del traffico che prosperano sulla chiusura dei confini europei, i sanguinosi patti con Libia e Turchia.

    Segregare: l’assalto alla libertà dei richiedenti asilo
    Costretti a una migrazione forzatamente illegale, quindi a manifestarsi come presenza indesiderata e minacciosa dell’equilibrio sociale, economico, finanche “etnico” del Paese di approdo, il migrante è anche costretto a chiedere asilo, costituendo questa l’unica via -per poi dover sottostare a una complessa procedura burocratica di legittimazione della propria presenza e a un esito assai incerto rispetto il riconoscimento di una forma di protezione-.

    Il quadro che si sta delineando appare infatti molto peggiore anche di quello tracciato nel 2018 dai famigerati “decreti sicurezza”, perché entra in gioco oggi -ancor più violentemente- il tema della limitazione della libertà personale dei richiedenti asilo. Se, ad esempio, nel 2018 la riforma sovvertiva il sistema di accoglienza affermando la centralità dei Centri di accoglienza straordinaria (Cas), ridotti a mero parcheggio, senza servizi di integrazione e senza nemmeno il rispetto degli standard minimi europei; essi oggi rischiano di essere “superflui”, perché comunque aperti, ovvero senza limitazione della libertà personale dei richiedenti. Oggi il Governo Meloni preconizza, con la nozione vaga di “punti caldi/punti di crisi” (hotspot), centri di detenzione informale in cui condurre sia le procedure di identificazione sia l’esame, accelerato, delle domande di asilo. Non più quindi luoghi di transito ma di detenzione informale. Come osserva Gianfranco Schiavone va infatti ricordato che “l’ordinamento italiano continua a non prevedere alcun intervento dell’autorità giudiziaria sul presupposto della detenzione negli hotspot e sulla condizione della stessa”. Il governo sceglie la direzione opposta, intendendo sfruttare al massimo questa mancanza di garanzia, gli hotspot divengono da luoghi di identificazione e transito, centri informali di detenzione, utili sia all’identificazione sia all’esame, accelerato, della domanda d’asilo.

    Segregare: l’estensione indebita della frontiera
    È attraverso questa risignificazione dei vaghi e opachi “punti di crisi/punti caldi” che il governo, ignorando il dettato costituzionale sul trasferimento delle funzioni amministrative ai Comuni, si appresta a estendere indebitamente la nozione di “frontiera” sin dentro città e paesi, anche molto lontano da porti e confini terrestri e, in questo spazio sospeso e indefinito, a tracciare il solco e innalzare i muri che separeranno italiani e stranieri, presenze legali e “illegali”, dentro e fuori. Gli emendamenti al “decreto Cutro” prevedono un ampiamento delle casistiche cui applicare la procedura accelerata di esame della domanda di asilo (o procedura “di frontiera”) tale da ricomprendere nei fatti ogni casistica possibile. Il decreto prevede anche la moltiplicazione degli hotspot sul territorio nazionale. Sino ad oggi le procedure di esame accelerato, in frontiere erano limitate a pochissime fattispecie. È un cambio di paradigma: negli hotspot non solo la procedura di identificazione ma anche l’esame della domanda d’asilo, con la possibilità di estenderne -evidentemente- i tempi di permanenza. È la genesi di un nuovo sistema concentrazionario. Infatti ritorna anche, dal testo dei “decreti sicurezza”, l’impossibilità per i richiedenti asilo di accedere al sistema pubblico di accoglienza integrata e diffusa (Sai, già Sprar). Tale sistema ritorna quindi in versione Siproimi, a essere esclusivo per i soli, pochi, cui verrà riconosciuta la protezione internazionale. Tramonta l’idea di costruire la protezione e l’integrazione sin da subito, attraverso la prossimità relazionale del contatto nelle comunità e attraverso la libertà di movimento dei richiedenti asilo.

    Punire: la spietata logica dei grandi centri chiusi
    Una recente e fondamentale inchiesta di Altreconomia, condotta da Luca Rondi e Lorenzo Figoni, ha squarciato il velo sulle condizioni di vita dentro i Centri di permanenza per il rimpatrio (Cpr). L’articolo s’intitola significativamente “Rinchiusi e sedati: l’abuso quotidiano di psicofarmaci nei Cpr italiani”. I Cpr, pur teatro di un crescente numero di gesti autolesivi, suicidi, violenze e danneggiamento delle strutture, sono stati recentemente oggetto di uno stanziamento economico imponente (quasi 46 milioni di euro) per potenziarne -sempre seguendo la logica della paura e della deterrenza percorsa dal governo- il funzionamento e anche in questo caso, la diffusione sul territorio nazionale. Si intravede un’ipotesi: segregare il migrante sin dal suo arrivo e in caso di diniego passare direttamente da hotspot a Cpr. L’inchiesta di Altreconomia, dati alla mano, mostra l’abuso di psicofarmaci dentro le strutture, utilizzati sistematicamente per disciplinare migranti costretti all’inattività forzata, senza personale cui rivolgersi e nessuna attività da svolgere.

    In un’intervista rilasciata al giornalista Franz Baraggino e pubblicata su ilfattoquotidiano.it, il Garante nazionale dei diritti delle persone private della libertà personale, Mauro Palma, ha commentato: “Avere più Cpr non serve a niente, se non a dare il messaggio simbolico del ‘li teniamo chiusi qui’, nient’altro”. Lo stesso Garante ha aggiunto che “in quei posti le persone cambiano e quando ritornano nelle nostre comunità, come il più delle volte accade, sono peggiorate […] i comportamenti di insofferenza acuta sono il prodotto di uno spazio dove non sei nulla, non fai nulla e nulla avviene, salvo rimuginare sul proprio destino, che è un destino di fallimento, quello del rimpatrio”. Complessivamente nei Cpr transitano circa 10mila persone all’anno, il 2% del totale degli irregolari, e contribuiscono per il solo 50% (circa 3.000) ai complessivi 6.000 rimpatri che avvengono in media ogni anno. Senza accordi bilaterali, il rimpatrio è per molti più una minaccia che una realtà. A fronte dell’inefficacia dello strumento, a fronte dei suoi costi e della sofferenza che genera, il governo invece investe su questa forma di detenzione per le persone “espulse”, per un’irregolarità appositamente creata.

    Sin dagli anni 90 del secolo scorso la letteratura scientifica è concorde sull’individuare nei centri di detenzione amministrativa, siano strutture adibite al rimpatrio come i nostri Cpr o le strutture di confinamento e segregazione dei richiedenti asilo come gli hotspot, luoghi con alta incidenza di problemi psichiatrici psicologici, di perdita della salute organica e delle risorse psico-sociali per affrontare la vita lavorativa e sociale una volta usciti dal centro (Loutan, Louis, et al. “Impact of trauma and torture on asylum-seekers.” The European Journal of Public Health 9.2 (1999): 93-96.). Allora perché farne sistema? La domanda è chiaramente retorica.

    Punire: lo smantellamento della protezione speciale
    Largamente anticipati da un sinistro rumore di fondo che ha ricordato il precedente assalto alla protezione umanitaria (2018), un rumore di fondo sorretto dalla mistificazione che affermava essere la protezione speciale una anomalia solo italiana; gli emendamenti al “decreto Cutro” hanno infine smantellato anche tale protezione. Non potendo privarla dei riferimenti a convenzioni e norme internazionali (Cedu), il governo -altro esempio di logica deliberatamente punitiva- ha scelto di confondere le competenze per il rilascio, ostacolandone l’ottenimento, che rimane sulla carta possibile ma nei fatti arduo. Se sino a oggi il percorso di ottenimento appariva ragionevole e chiaro, ora non lo è più, precipitato nel conflitto di competenze tra questure e commissioni territoriali. Preme sottolineare che questa ennesima e antieconomica previsione colpirà in special modo coloro che per varie ragioni stanno compiendo passi decisivi per un percorso di integrazione sociale e lavorativa, cui ha dato principio nonostante gli ostacoli precedenti.

    Conclusione
    Abbiamo provato a ricostruire il messaggio culturale, simbolico e -almeno per alcune misure- le conseguenze concrete, di quanto previsto dal decreto legge del 10 marzo 2023 e dei suoi numerosissimi emendamenti che ne definiranno la conversione in legge, prevista entro i primi dieci giorni di maggio. Per quanto molti dei suoi contenuti siano di difficile applicazione ed è prevedibile un’imponente mole di controversie legali, abbiamo creduto importante analizzarne gli intenti, cercando di osservarne il disegno per comprendere quale intenzioni ed obiettivi hanno mosso il legislatore in una così radicale sfida all’ordinamento giuridico, ai diritti, a istituti sociali e conquiste culturali.

    Tra queste, certamente colpisce, a 45 anni dalla “Legge Basaglia”, il ritorno a strutture concentrazionarie per segregare un determinato gruppo sociale, oggi i migranti, privati della loro libertà per la colpa di sfidare con determinazione, disperazione o -come riconosciuto dai cutresi- speranza, il divieto imposto dall’Europa e dall’Italia a poter vivere in pace e sicurezza. Per articolare in legge questo che è un discorso politico e culturale “estremo” che nega sia ai migranti il riconoscimento delle cause in cui si è prodotta la migrazione, sia alla società italiana la propria storia e le sue conquiste democratiche e sociali (tra esse ricordiamo solo la chiusura dei manicomi, delle classi speciali), il governo investe su un decisivo salto di qualità in strumenti e pratiche di segregazione, confinamento e marginalizzazione dei migranti, sino al punto di limitare la libertà personale. Un salto di qualità atto a impedire il contatto, la solidarietà e orientato a impedire l’integrazione sociale e lavorativa, la convivenza interculturale basata sui diritti.

    Vincolato da Costituzione, trattati internazionali, norme superiori, il governo propone allora un disegno “banalmente” tecnico nella forma (gli emendamenti) quanto feroce nella sostanza. Tanto più feroce quanto più impotente a fronte dei cambiamenti epocali che stiamo collettivamente attraversando, cercando nella deterrenza e nella minaccia ai gruppi sociali più fragili, la misura della propria forza e assumendo una postura punitiva, inutile se non a produrre evitabili sofferenze individuali, tensioni sociali improduttive e costi economici e sociali per le generazioni future.

    L’iniziale citazione di Antonio Gramsci è stata trattata solo per metà, quella relativa al pessimismo dell’intelligenza. In conclusione è il tempo invece della seconda parte, l’ottimismo della volontà. C’è ragione di credere che un disegno -quello tracciato dal decreto- così povero di futuro e così meschinamente abbarbicato sulla deumanizzazione dei migranti, sia rigettato dalla società, sia reso inapplicabile nella quotidianità, nelle relazioni interpersonali e sociali, prima ancora che nelle aule dei tribunali, iniziando una grande stagione dove italiani e migranti insieme affermino uniti l’inviolabilità dei diritti di tutti e tutte e la libertà di costruire insieme il futuro che ci attende.

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    • Italy: New law curtails migrants’ rights

      For migrants in Italy getting special protection status can be life-changing. But lawmakers have now approved a law severely restricting access.

      Italy’s parliament recently greenlighted a controversial decree to crack down on irregular migration. Known as the Cutro decree — in reference to the southern town in Calabria where more than 90 people died in a shipwreck last February — the legislation severely limits a special protection status Italian authorities can grant to migrants who do not qualify for asylum.

      Italy has recorded more than 42,000 irregular arrivals since the beginning of 2023, almost four times as many as in the same period last year and the Italian government claims special protection incentivizes migrants to start dangerous trips to the country.

      “Special protection creates attractive conditions for immigration and we will eliminate it,” said Nicola Molteni of the right-wing League party, whose currently serving as the undersecretary at the Interior Ministry.

      Agriculture Minister Francesco Lollobrigida, from Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s far-right Brothers of Italy party, recently sparked controversy, warning against the “ethnic replacement” of Italians by migrants, a notion widely regarded as racist.

      Before the decree, people offered special protection status could live in Italy for two years, renew their residence permit and convert it into a working permit. It was granted to asylum seekers who risked being persecuted in their country of origin, those fleeing war and natural disasters, as well as those with family ties or high levels of economic integration in Italy.
      What changes with the new migration rules

      Now, all that has changed. While special protection remains available for those at risk of torture, inhumane treatment or systematic rights violations in their home nation, the new law narrows access by scrapping criteria based on family links or economic integration.

      “If a person is not at terrible risk in their home country, but in the meantime has started a family or had children in Italy, the commission [assessing residence status] will not take this into account,” explains Paolo De Stefani, a professor in international law at the University of Padova.

      People fleeing natural disasters or seeking treatment for severe medical conditions will also see their access to special protection restricted. Most importantly, however, it will not be possible for them to convert it into a work permit.

      Language courses and legal advice will also be scrapped in reception centers.

      Things will change, too, for unaccompanied minors. They are still entitled to special protection permits until they turn 18; they can extend it for one more year, but cannot convert it into a work permit.

      “This means killing the prospects of integration for people arriving in Italy at a very young age,” said De Stefani. “What type of educational path will be imagined for those with such prospects?”

      In contrast with the otherwise restrictive nature of the law, the law offers a new possibility for victims of forced marriage to apply for special protection.

      Migrants fear for their future

      While those who already benefit or who have already requested special protection will not be affected by the new legislation, many agree the climate towards migrants has become more harsh.

      Sarja Kubally, a Gambian national currently under special protection, says Italy has not been the same since a new government headed by the far right came to power.

      “I am thinking of leaving, I am happy here, but now I am afraid of staying with this situation,” he told DW.

      Although Kubally is confident he himself will get a work permit, he fears others will miss out on opportunities he benefited from.

      “Special protection really changes your life. It allows you to work, to study. You can do many things and give back,” Kubally said. “If someone needs help, you need to help them, not make it even harder for them. We should put humanity first.”

      The uncertainty for Ali, who asked not to use his real name for security reasons, is far greater. The Pakistani national, who spent four years in Greece where he maintains local authorities did not accept his asylum claim, has been living in Italy since 2021. He now has a three-year work contract and is learning Italian, but his asylum request was recently rejected. He is now appealing the decision. Should his bid be turned down again, Ali will not be able to apply for special protection under the new rules.

      “I lost four years of my life in Greece, but here in Italy I am well integrated, I have a job, I want to stay here,” Ali told DW. “Well-integrated people should be allowed to stay. I haven’t thought about [what I would do if I couldn’t access special protection]. Going back to Pakistan is unthinkable.”

      Less special protection, more precariousness

      Italy has always provided special protection, except from 2018-2020 when former Interior Minister Matteo Salvini scrapped it temporarily . Though Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni claims otherwise, Italy is not the only country which offers this type of protection. Though different terminology is used, 18 other states in Europe provide similar special protections.

      Critics warn restricting access to special protection will push more migrants into an undocumented life outside the law and rob vulnerable people of fundamental rights — especially as the move follows another decree which limits the work of nonprofit rescue ships operating in the Mediterranean, and Italy last month declaring a six-month state of emergency to curb migration flows.

      Valeria Carlini, a spokesperson for the Italian Council for Refugees, says the law will not only harm people seeking protection but also local societies, where migrants have begun building a life and contributing to the socioeconomic fabric.

      Law professor De Stefani believes the legislation ultimately undermines integration — especially for irregular migrants — and aims to put an emergency band-aid on migration flows. “People will have poorer conditions in Italy and eventually seek better protection and living standards in other European countries,” he said.

      Like many of her predecessor governments, Meloni has been demanding more solidarity and better coordination among EU countries to tackle migration flows.

      “This law might be seen as the latest maneuver to pressure Europe into seriously tackling migration issues, but it is betting with someone else’s life,” said De Stefani.

      https://www.infomigrants.net/en/post/48834/italy-new-law-curtails-migrants-rights

    • La doppia morte dei naufraghi di #Cutro

      1.

      In un documento redatto dall’associazione di magistrati Area sul “#decreto_Cutro” appena prima dell’esame della Camera dei Deputati, si legge questo interrogativo: «cosa spinge il legislatore a credere che blocchi navali o i finanziamenti di regimi autoritari possano fermare persone che hanno attraversato il deserto per fuggire a guerre, violenza insopportabile, distruzione, persecuzione, ripetute discriminazioni e che cercano protezione in quei Paesi che hanno fatto della protezione internazionale e del rispetto della dignità una regola fondamentale e immutabile della loro civiltà?» (https://www.areadg.it/comunicato/non-chiamiamolo-decreto-cutro). Nel frattempo il decreto legge è stato convertito, senza alcuna modifica da parte della Camera ove il Governo ha posto la fiducia, nella legge 5 maggio 2023 n. 50.

      Dopo la tragedia di Cutro (94 morti di cui 36 bambini, ma vi sono altri dispersi) chiunque si sarebbe aspettato che il Governo, seppure dalla sua posizione di chiusura, mettesse mano alla legislazione vigente focalizzandosi su due questioni generali irrisolte: la prima questione riguarda come riformare la normativa in materia di ingressi per lavoro in modo da aprire canali di ingresso regolare, come lo stesso Governo ha più volte annunciato di voler fare; la seconda riguarda la possibilità di introdurre procedure di ingresso protette/sicure, finora non esistenti, per consentire a una parte dei rifugiati che intendono arrivare in Italia di poterlo fare attraverso canali appunto protetti. In entrambi i casi le due diverse auspicate normative, oltre a salvare vite umane, avrebbero avuto il non secondario effetto di sottrarre alla criminalità organizzata delle quote di merce umana. Eppure la legge n. 50/2023 non è intervenuta su nessuna di queste due questioni fondamentali: né sugli ingressi per lavoro, né sugli ingressi per asilo.

      Sulla materia degli ingressi per lavoro il decreto legge n. 20/2023, poi convertito in legge, è intervenuto su due aspetti: la programmazione generale degli ingressi e la formazione all’estero. Sul primo punto la nuova disciplina prevede «la predisposizione ogni tre anni – salva la necessità di un termine più breve – del documento programmatico relativo alla politica dell’immigrazione» e «la definizione con dPCM annuale delle quote di ingresso, con possibilità di adottare ulteriori decreti in corso d’anno, sulla base dei criteri generali adottati nel documento programmatico». Ciò, peraltro, era già contemplato, con minime differenze, dalla normativa e l’unica modesta innovazione riguarda la modifica all’art. 21 del TU Immigrazione secondo cui «può essere autorizzato l’ingresso e il soggiorno per lavoro subordinato, anche a carattere stagionale, di stranieri cittadini di Paesi con i quali l’Italia ha sottoscritto intese o accordi in materia di rimpatrio». Nulla viene modificato in relazione al problema di fondo che produce da oltre vent’anni l’irregolarità in Italia, ovvero l’impossibile incontro a distanza tra offerta e domanda di lavoro che costringe i lavoratori stranieri a entrare in Italia irregolarmente, o a entrarvi regolarmente – se provenienti da paesi per i quali non è richiesto il possesso di un visto – e poi rimanere a soggiornare irregolarmente e lavorare in nero in attesa che un provvedimento di emersione o un decreto flussi, come quello emanato dal Governo il 26 gennaio 2023 per 82.705 posti di lavoro (a fronte di 240.000 domande presentate) permetta loro di regolarizzare ex post la loro posizione di soggiorno. Paradossalmente la nuova norma non prevede neppure l’abrogazione della preventiva verifica dell’indisponibilità di lavoratori italiani o stranieri già presenti in Italia prevista quale condizione per il rilascio dei nulla-osta al lavoro richiesti da datori di lavoro per l’assunzione dei persone chiamate a svolgere le prestazioni indicate nel decreto sulle quote: si genera così ancora una volta una palese contraddizione in quanto la programmazione è (o meglio dovrebbe essere) fondata sull’analisi del fabbisogno del mercato del lavoro effettuata dal Ministero del Lavoro e delle politiche sociali previo confronto con le organizzazioni dei datori di lavoro e dei lavoratori. È quindi irragionevole che l’assunzione dall’estero per la medesima mansione sia condizionata da un’ulteriore verifica da parte del centro per l’impiego della indisponibilità di altri lavoratori che siano già in Italia. La mancanza di modifiche sostanziali, coperta da modificazioni solo linguistiche, è visibile in modo evidente nell’art. 23 TU immigrazione che prevede la possibilità di realizzare attività di istruzione e di formazione professionale e civico-linguistica nei Paesi di origine finalizzata all’inserimento lavorativo mirato nei settori produttivi italiani. Si tratta anche in questo caso, di una previsione che esisteva già, solo con diversa epigrafe. L’unica modifica significativa riguarda la possibilità che il Ministero del lavoro promuova «la stipula di accordi di collaborazione e intese tecniche con soggetti pubblici e privati operanti nel campo della formazione e dei servizi per il lavoro nei Paesi terzi di interesse per la promozione di percorsi di qualificazione professionale e la selezione dei lavoratori direttamente nei Paesi di origine» (art. 23 comma 4 bis); l’ingresso dei lavoratori che hanno effettuato i corsi avverrebbe in tal caso in deroga ai limiti quantitativi previsti dalla programmazione delle quote di ingresso. Si apre così la possibilità di una selezione delle braccia da parte di grandi agenzie che decideranno di organizzare corsi di formazione per reperire la propria mano d’opera all’estero, ma non la possibilità per i lavoratori stranieri che hanno effettuato con successo dei corsi di formazione all’estero (magari nell’ambito di programmi di cooperazione allo sviluppo, del tutto esclusi) di ottenere un visto di ingresso per ricerca di lavoro in presenza dei requisiti economici, posseduti dagli stessi lavoratori o forniti da terzi, necessari a mantenersi in Italia per un primo periodo. Se così fosse stato la legge avrebbe dato avvio a una pagina nuova che non si è voluto in alcun modo aprire. Il messaggio è chiaro: nessuna riforma del sistema degli ingressi doveva essere effettuata.

      Se sul versante degli ingressi per lavoro il Governo ha finto di aumentare i canali di ingresso regolari, per ciò che riguarda gli ingressi per asilo non ha neppure finto: nulla infatti è stato proposto se non dichiarazioni di elogio all’esperienza dei corridoi umanitari, realizzati però non dal Governo ma da enti umanitari. Le persone morte nella strage di Cutro, come in molte altre tragedie, erano in larga parte stranieri che fuggivano da situazioni di persecuzione e violenze in Afghanistan, Siria, Iraq e altri paesi e che cercavano asilo in Europa. La loro partenza dalla Turchia e la scelta della rotta marittima erano legate alla necessità di evitare, almeno per i soggetti più deboli (quali donne e minori), la via terrestre, ovvero la famigerata rotta balcanica segnata da continue violenze e respingimenti, dalla Grecia fino alla Slovenia. Sotto questo profilo la strage di Cutro rappresenta una tragica sintesi dell’ecatombe in atto lungo le rotte migratorie, sia via mare che via terra. Un decreto legge che nasce quale risposta a quella strage, come detto in premessa, avrebbe dovuto affrontare il nodo di come introdurre procedure e criteri in base ai quali i cittadini stranieri con bisogno di protezione internazionale possano entrare in Italia in modo regolare e protetto, autonomamente o usufruendo di programmi pubblici. Anche su questo versante erano state avanzate diverse interessanti proposte, ma sono state tutte rigettate.

      C’è una terza questione che la legge n. 50/2023 non affronta: la materia dei soccorsi in mare considerata la tardività e inefficacia dimostrata nel caso specifico e, in particolare, la non chiarita ragione per cui, pur informate dei fatti, le autorità competenti sono intervenute agendo attraverso modalità riconducibili a un’operazione di polizia e non a quelle di un operazione di ricerca e soccorso, come richiesto dalla normativa internazionale (https://www.asgi.it/notizie/naufragio-cutro-associazioni-depositano-esposto-collettivo-in-procura). A ben guardare però la materia del soccorso in mare è già regolata da precise norme di diritto internazionale recepite dall’Italia e non c’è bisogno di alcuna nuova disciplina per evitare le tragedie come quella di Cutro, che, semmai, avvengono a causa di prassi e forzature finalizzate e eludere o indebolire gli obblighi di soccorso. Di fronte a una tragedia avvenuta in un’area geografica non presidiata dall’intervento di ONG il Governo italiano non ha potuto coprire le proprie carenze gettando la colpa sulle odiate organizzazioni umanitarie. Alla caccia di qualcosa di roboante da dare in pasto all’opinione pubblica ha scelto, dunque, di introdurre nuove disposizioni penali eccezionalmente severe nel caso di morte o lesioni come conseguenza dei delitti di favoreggiamento dell’immigrazione irregolare. La premier Meloni ha scenograficamente annunciato ai media «la volontà di colpire gli scafisti non solo quando li troviamo sulle barche, ma andandoli a cercare lungo tutto il globo terracqueo» (la Repubblica 10 marzo 2023) dimenticando che coloro che guidano le imbarcazioni spesso hanno poco a che fare con le organizzazioni criminali e che in ogni caso, anche quando vi sono connessi, sono gli ultimi anelli della catena (Dal mare al carcere: la criminalizzazione dei cosiddetti scafisti).

      2.

      Se non interviene né sui nodi scoperti degli ingressi regolari per lavoro, né sugli ingressi protetti, quali sono dunque le materie affrontate dal decreto legge n. 20/2023 e, poi, dalla legge di conversione n. 50/2023?

      Gli aspetti essenziali, la nuova norma interviene sono tre: a) il ridimensionamento della protezione speciale; b) la destrutturazione del sistema di accoglienza dei richiedenti asilo con smembramento del SAI (sistema di accoglienza ed integrazione), a cui – analogamente a quanto era avvenuto per lo SPRAR con la legge n. 173/2020 – viene sottratta la possibilità di accogliere i richiedenti asilo; c) l’ampliamento delle ipotesi di trattenimento dei richiedenti asilo nei CPR e soprattutto negli hotspot e una parallela estensione delle procedure di frontiera o procedure accelerate, con una generale contrazione delle garanzie procedurali in sede di esame delle domande di asilo.

      Mi limito, per ragioni di spazio, a un breve approfondimento della problematica della protezione speciale. Il ridimensionamento della terza forma di protezione prevista dall’ordinamento, la cosiddetta protezione speciale, introdotta con la legge n. 132/2018 ma novellata in senso estensivo con la legge n. 173/2020, è stato il tema che maggiormente è emerso nel dibattito pubblico. Il testo del decreto legge n. 20/2023 sembrava mirare solo a restringere l’ambito di applicazione della previgente normativa cassando il paragrafo dell’art. 19 comma 1.1 secondo cui «non sono altresì ammessi il respingimento o l’espulsione di una persona verso uno Stato qualora esistano fondati motivi di ritenere che l’allontanamento dal territorio nazionale comporti una violazione del diritto al rispetto della sua vita privata e familiare, a meno che esso sia necessario per ragioni di sicurezza nazionale, di ordine e sicurezza pubblica nonché di protezione della salute nel rispetto della Convenzione relativa allo statuto dei rifugiati. Ai fini della valutazione del rischio di violazione di cui al periodo precedente, si tiene conto della natura e della effettività dei vincoli familiari dell’interessato, del suo effettivo inserimento sociale in Italia, della durata del suo soggiorno nel territorio nazionale nonché dell’esistenza di legami familiari, culturali o sociali con il suo Paese d’origine». In sede di conversione in legge al Senato è emersa una volontà della maggioranza ancor più aggressiva finalizzata a cancellare pressoché in toto questo istituto e ad eliminare la possibilità di esaminare la domanda di riconoscimento della protezione speciale attraverso il canale costituito dall’istanza alla questura e dal parere vincolante della commissione senza audizione, ovvero fuori dalla procedura di esame di una domanda di asilo. Alla fine dell’iter parlamentare alcune delle proposte più estreme sono state ritirate (pur se tutto è stato incanalato nella sola procedura di asilo) ed è rimasto l’obbligo per le Commissioni territoriali che esaminano le domande di asilo di riconoscere una protezione speciale qualora «esistano fondati motivi di ritenere che [la persona interessata] rischi di essere sottoposta a tortura o a trattamenti inumani o degradanti o qualora ricorrano gli obblighi di cui all’articolo 5, comma 6 [del TU Immigrazione]». Il nuovo articolo prevede che «il rifiuto o la revoca del permesso di soggiorno possono essere altresì adottati sulla base di convenzioni o accordi internazionali, resi esecutivi in Italia, quando lo straniero non soddisfi le condizioni di soggiorno applicabili in uno degli Stati contraenti, fatto salvo il rispetto degli obblighi costituzionali o internazionali dello Stato italiano».

      In questa situazione pochi dubbi possano esserci in relazione all’obbligo per le Commissioni territoriali di valutare la sussistenza dei requisiti per il riconoscimento della protezione speciale per rispetto di uno degli obblighi costituzionali o connessi all’ordinamento internazionale cui l’Italia è vincolata. Tra tali obblighi v’è il rispetto della vita privata e familiare sancito dall’art. 8 CEDU (Convenzione Europea dei Diritti dell’Uomo) come interpretato dalla giurisprudenza della Corte EDU e da una rilevante giurisprudenza interna. Si è invece diffusa una fallace informazione secondo cui la protezione speciale è stata cancellata. In particolare si è sostenuto che è stato cancellato il riconoscimento di tale protezione per riconoscimento del diritto alla vita privata e famigliare. Persino nella relazione illustrativa del decreto legge alla Camera dei Deputati si possono leggere affermazioni quali la seguente: «l’articolo 7, modificato al Senato, elimina il divieto di respingimento ed espulsione di una persona previsto nel caso vi sia fondato motivo di ritenere che l’allontanamento dal territorio nazionale comporti una violazione del diritto al rispetto della vita privata e familiare». In tale frase si sostiene che è legittimo espellere colui che… ha il diritto a non essere espulso. Ha dell’incredibile leggere tali corbellerie in un atto parlamentare e ciò illumina il livello di tensione politica che ha avvolto l’intera vicenda e soprattutto svela l’intenzione dell’Esecutivo: il diritto in questione non può essere cancellato, ma non deve potere essere esercitato.

      È agevole prevedere, sulla base di chiare evidenze, che il Governo farà enormi pressioni affinché le Commissioni territoriali per il riconoscimento del diritto d’asilo (che non sono per nulla indipendenti e soggette solamente alla legge e su cui si esercita una pervasiva influenza politica) restringano al massimo l’ambito di applicazione della protezione speciale rigettando il maggior numero possibile di domande anche in presenza dei presupposti per il riconoscimento. Che lo straniero denegato faccia pure ricorso alla magistratura sapendo che essa deciderà sui ricorsi dopo anni a causa della lentezza dei procedimenti, che diverranno ancor più lenti a causa dell’aumento dei contenziosi. Intanto ciò che conta è portare subito a casa il risultato di una diminuzione del numero dei riconoscimenti di protezione, anche se ciò aumenterà l’irregolarità e la precarietà di vita di migliaia di persone la cui vita è ritenuta irrilevante.

      Con il decreto legge n. 20/2023 e la conseguente legge di conversione i morti del naufragio di Cutro sono morti una seconda volta.

      https://volerelaluna.it/in-primo-piano/2023/05/16/la-doppia-morte-dei-naufraghi-di-cutro
      #naufrage #mourir_en_mer #décès #Gianfranco_Schiavone #migrations #asile #réfugiés #Méditerranée #Italie

    • Naufragio di Cutro, ritardi e omissioni della Guardia di finanza. Avvisi di garanzia per tre ufficiali

      Il giallo degli audio spariti e le bugie sulla vedetta di salvataggio. Perquisizioni e sequestri di tablet e cellulari. L’ipotesi di reato: omicidio colposo. Alti tre indagati coperti da omissis. Il legale delle vittime
      “Lo Stato ha responsabilità chiare”

      Alle 23.49 del 25 febbraio il capoturno della sala operativa della Guardia costiera di Reggio Calabria era relativamente tranquillo. Da Vibo Valentia, la Guardia di finanza assicurava che una loro motovedetta, la potente “5006” era già uscita alla ricerca di quel caicco, verosimilmente carico di migranti, segnalato un paio d’ore prima da un aereo di Frontex a tutti i comandi operativi europei ed italiani a cominciare da quello della Finanza a Pratica di mare.

      (#paywall)
      https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2023/06/01/news/naufragio_cutro_indagati_sequestro-402763465

      #justice

    • The Crotone Cover Up

      Italy lied about their role in a shipwreck that killed 94 people – including 35 children – and the EU border agency Frontex helped cover it up

      During the early hours of February 26, 2023 a wooden pleasure boat crashed close to the shore in Cutro, Italy. On board were nearly 200 people, mostly refugees from Afghanistan. At least 94 of them died, including 35 children. Yet the overloaded boat had been spotted by Europe’s border agency Frontex six hours before the wreck, struggling in bad weather. The deaths, which took place so close to the shore, shocked Italy and Europe. But Frontex and the Italian authorities deflected blame onto each other.

      Frontex said that the boat showed “no signs of distress” and that it was up to Italy to decide whether to launch a rescue operation. Italy’s prime minister claimed that they didn’t know the boat “risked sinking” and didn’t intervene because Frontex didn’t send them an ‘emergency communication’. “Do any of you think that the Italian government could have saved the lives of 60 people, including a child of about three years whose body was just found today, and it didn’t?” Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said shortly after the tragedy.

      A joint investigation by Lighthouse Reports and its partners reveals that both the Italian authorities and the Frontex leadership were aware that the boat was showing signs of distress when the ship was first spotted six hours before the wreck, but nevertheless decided not to intervene – and later tried to conceal how much they knew.
      METHODS

      When images of boat debris on an Italian beach were broadcast around the world, it was hard to imagine that they came from a vessel carrying 200 people. The Summer Love, a wooden boat approximately 25 metres long, was crammed with women, children and men fleeing wars, hoping for a better life. With little video footage available, we decided to make a 3D model of the vessel to better understand and explain the risks people were prepared to take. Crowded below decks, they had little chance of survival when the boat sank as their only exit was one narrow staircase.

      Over time, our reporters won the trust of some of the survivors by spending time with them in the centres they’re now living in. They shared their stories from departing Turkey to the harrowing losses they suffered in the sea. Some shared videos which revealed additional details about the shipwreck, including a tablet with navigation software which confirmed the vessel’s location and direction of travel.

      Crucially, we obtained leaked confidential Frontex mission reports which revealed that a plane operated by the border agency had reported signs of distress to both the agency and Italian authorities. Hours before the flight, operators warned about “strong winds” in the Ionian Sea. Frontex then detected the vessel by tracking multiple satellite phone calls made throughout the day by people on board. A detailed account of the pilot’s calls show that Frontex knew it was a “possible migrant vessel,” with no visible safety jackets and a “significant thermal response” from below deck. According to Frontex’s press office, this is an indication of the presence of an “unusual” number of people on board.

      Bad weather, a lack of life vests and overcrowding constitute signs of distress under Frontex’s and Italy’s own maritime rules; still the maritime authorities did not launch a search and rescue operation. After the wreck, the European border agency concealed the fact that their pilot had signalled strong winds to their control room during the surveillance flight.
      STORIES

      Assad Almulqi was a child when war broke out in Syria. His family fled their city after it was attacked with poisonous gas in 2013. This year, the 22 year-old paid 8,000 euros for a place on the boat from Turkey. His six-year-old brother Sultan was allowed to travel for free.

      He recalls the moment everything went wrong. “It was dark. The ship leaned to one side and half of it went underwater. It sank in seconds.”

      “I got scared, held my brother in my arms and told my uncle that we needed to go upstairs because something not normal was happening. The waves started hitting the windows and water entered the ship.”

      He jumped out when the water reached his knees, holding his brother tightly.

      Assad tried desperately to keep Sultan above the waves as he attempted to signal to rescuers. “We were drowning ourselves to keep his head above the water, but it wasn’t enough to save him.”

      They clung to pieces of the ship, fighting to stay afloat as people around them drowned.

      Also onboard was 23-year old Nigeena who was travelling with her husband Seyar, following their wedding just four months earlier. She clutched his hand as they fought to stay above water. They were almost ashore when a huge wave swept Seyar away. Their boat broke apart 200 metres off the coast of Italy.

      “The wreck is Italy’s fault because they knew from the start that a boat had arrived,” said Nigeena. “Usually when they see an unfamiliar ship it’s their job to check it out. But they didn’t.”

      Lawyers for some of the families of the victims are planning to take a case to the European Court of Human Rights, arguing Italy should be held responsible for the “irremediable violation of migrants’ right to life.”

      https://www.lighthousereports.com/investigation/the-crotone-cover-up

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      En italien (résumé):
      L’insabbiamento sulla strage di Steccato di Cutro

      Un’inchiesta internazionale di #Lighthouse_Reports dimostra il rimpallo delle responsabilità tra Frontex, guardia di finanza e guardia costiera italiana

      https://www.meltingpot.org/2023/06/linsabbiamento-sulla-strage-di-steccato-di-cutro

    • Omissione di soccorso: la vera storia del naufragio di Cutro

      Un’inchiesta internazionale – a cui Domani ha collaborato insieme a Lighthouse Reports, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Le Monde, El Pais e Sky News – mostra attraverso documenti inediti, fonti confidenziali, immagini satellitari, modelli 3d e decine di testimonianze cosa è accaduto quella sera e il rimpallo delle responsabilità tra le tre autorità coinvolte: Frontex, guardia di finanza e guardia costiera. Intanto l’indagine giudiziaria della procura di Crotone va avanti: il primo giugno le prime perquisizioni hanno riguardato tre ufficiali della guardia di finanza. L’obiettivo è individuare le falle nella catena di comando

      (#paywall)
      https://www.editorialedomani.it/fatti/naufragio-cutro-inchiesta-internazionale-wqa2rkss

  • Manque de médecins, d’infirmiers, de psychologues… L’#école, premier désert médical de #France - Le Parisien
    https://www.leparisien.fr/societe/manque-de-medecins-dinfirmiers-de-psychologues-lecole-premier-desert-medi

    Ce pourrait être « le lieu rêvé de la prévention ». Après tout, l’école est bien cet endroit où tous les enfants et familles passent. Mais voilà, dans la réalité, c’est raté. Le pilotage de la #politique de #santé scolaire est « défaillant », alerte un rapport d’information du député Robin Reda (Renaissance), présenté ce mercredi 10 mai à l’Assemblée nationale et que nous dévoilons.

    #paywall

  • Dans les services des #urgences, une crise qui s’éternise et des #soignants qui s’épuisent
    https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2023/05/07/dans-les-services-des-urgences-une-crise-qui-s-eternise-et-des-soignants-qui

    Il n’y a pas de « fermeture sèche » de services des urgences, écarte-t-on au cabinet du ministre de la santé, François Braun, où l’on parle seulement de « régulation des entrées », sans faire état d’alertes plus fortes que d’habitude. C’est un « travail de longue haleine », se défend-on en mettant en avant toutes les mesures « structurelles » en cours de déploiement pour mieux orienter en amont des urgences vers la médecine de ville, jusqu’à la « fluidification des parcours des patients » une fois aux urgences, grâce au développement de cellules de « bed management » (gestion de lits) à l’échelle des territoires pour leur trouver un lit, ou encore aux mesures de revalorisation pour rétablir l’attractivité de l’#hôpital auprès des soignants.

    #santé #France #Gâchis #criminel

    #paywall

  • Aux États-Unis, des milliers de femmes victimes de l’industrie cosmétique | Mediapart
    https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/060523/aux-etats-unis-des-milliers-de-femmes-victimes-de-l-industrie-cosmetique

    Le géant pharmaceutique américain Johnson & Johnson et son fournisseur français, le groupe Imerys, sont accusés d’avoir tout fait pour maintenir leurs produits à base de talc, en dépit des risques de cancer, notamment pour les femmes. Soixante mille plaintes ont été déposées aux États-Unis.

  • Les propos de Gérald Darmanin sur Giorgia Meloni provoquent une nouvelle crise franco-italienne sur la question de l’immigration
    https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2023/05/05/les-propos-de-gerald-darmanin-sur-giorgia-meloni-provoquent-une-nouvelle-cri

    « Meloni, c’est comme Le Pen, elle se fait élire sur “vous allez voir ce que vous allez voir” et puis ce que l’on voit, c’est que ça ne s’arrête pas et que ça s’amplifie », a également déclaré M. Darmanin, les considérations de politique intérieure prenant ainsi le pas à nouveau sur les relations diplomatiques entre les deux pays. Côté français, les parallèles entre Marine Le Pen et Giorgia Meloni semblent dominer les préoccupations d’un exécutif professant face à l’extrême droite un discours de fermeté sur le dossier migratoire.

    On en est au stade où on se brouille avec la néo-fasciste italienne, parce que notre ministre de l’intérieur trouve qu’elle n’est pas assez fasciste. Alors qu’avec lui, vous allez voir comment ça va te me ratonner efficace…

  • The economics of thinness | The Economist
    Christmas Special, Dec 20th 2022
    https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2022/12/20/the-economics-of-thinness

    It is economically rational for ambitious women to try as hard as possible to be thin

    Mireille Guiliano is a slim and successful woman. She was born in France and studied in Paris before working as an interpreter for the United Nations. She then worked in the champagne business and in 1984 joined Veuve Clicquot whose performance was, at the time, rather flat. She fizzed up the ranks and launched their American subsidiary. In 1991 she became its chief executive and ran it with great success. In her apartment overlooking downtown Manhattan, she offers a glass of water before quipping “You know how much I love water.” She is correct; drinking plenty of water is a key rule in “French Women Don’t Get Fat”, her bestselling book on how to lose weight and stay slim “the French way”.

    In the book she describes her discomfort when as a teenager she gained weight while spending a summer in America. Her uneasiness comes to a head when she returns home to France and her father, instead of rushing to hug her, tells her she looks “like a sack of potatoes”. She goes on a new diet plan, remembers her old French habits (lots of water, controlled portions, moving regularly) and tips the scales back in her favour.

    #paywall

    le commentaire du tweet du 23/03/2023 qui annonce l’article :

    According to some surveys the expectation that they should be thin is learned by girls as young as six. The tragedy is that there is no escape

    https://twitter.com/TheEconomist/status/1638920594715443202

  • La France, « paradis fiscal » des milliardaires
    https://www.nouvelobs.com/economie/20230428.OBS72718/la-france-paradis-fiscal-des-milliardaires.html

    Les ultra-riches disent payer des impôts « colossaux », mais colossaux par rapport à quoi ? Le taux de prélèvement obligatoire qui pèse sur eux est inférieur de moitié à celui que supportent leurs concitoyens. Pour comprendre, plongée au cœur des dispositifs fiscaux.

    alléchant mais #paywall

  • UK signs contract with US startup to identify migrants in small-boat crossings

    The UK government has turned a US-based startup specialized in artificial intelligence as part of its pledge to stop small-boat crossings. Experts have already pointed out the legal and logistical challenges of the plan.

    In a new effort to address the high number of Channel crossings, the UK Home Office is working with the US defense startup #Anduril, specialized in the use of artificial intelligence (AI).

    A surveillance tower has already been installed at Dover, and other technologies might be rolled out with the onset of warmer temperatures and renewed attempts by migrants to reach the UK. Some experts already point out the risks and practical loopholes involved in using AI to identify migrants.

    “This is obviously the next step of the illegal migration bill,” said Olivier Cahn, a researcher specialized in penal law.

    “The goal is to retrieve images that were taken at sea and use AI to show they entered UK territory illegally even if people vanish into thin air upon arrival in the UK.”

    The “illegal migration bill” was passed by the UK last month barring anyone from entering the country irregularly from filing an asylum claim and imposing a “legal duty” to remove them to a third country.
    Who is behind Anduril?

    Founded in 2017 by its CEO #Palmer_Luckey, Anduril is backed by #Peter_Thiel, a Silicon Valley investor and supporter of Donald Trump. The company has supplied autonomous surveillance technology to the US Department of Defense (DOD) to detect and track migrants trying to cross the US-Mexico border.

    In 2021, the UK Ministry of Defence awarded Anduril with a £3.8-million contract to trial an advanced base defence system. Anduril eventually opened a branch in London where it states its mission: “combining the latest in artificial intelligence with commercial-of-the-shelf sensor technology (EO, IR, Radar, Lidar, UGS, sUAS) to enhance national security through automated detection, identification and tracking of objects of interest.”

    According to Cahn, the advantage of Brexit is that the UK government is no longer required to submit to the General Data Protection Regulation (RGPDP), a component of data protection that also addresses the transfer of personal data outside the EU and EEA areas.

    “Even so, the UK has data protection laws of its own which the government cannot breach. Where will the servers with the incoming data be kept? What are the rights of appeal for UK citizens whose data is being processed by the servers?”, he asked.

    ’Smugglers will provide migrants with balaclavas for an extra 15 euros’

    Cahn also pointed out the technical difficulties of identifying migrants at sea. “The weather conditions are often not ideal, and many small-boat crossings happen at night. How will facial recognition technology operate in this context?”

    The ability of migrants and smugglers to adapt is yet another factor. “People are going to cover their faces, and anyone would think the smugglers will respond by providing migrants with balaclavas for an extra 15 euros.”

    If the UK has solicited the services of a US startup to detect and identify migrants, the reason may lie in AI’s principle of self-learning. “A machine accumulates data and recognizes what it has already seen. The US is a country with a significantly more racially and ethnically diverse population than the UK. Its artificial intelligence might contain data from populations which are more ethnically comparable to the populations that are crossing the Channel, like Somalia for example, thus facilitating the process of facial recognition.”

    For Cahn, it is not capturing the images which will be the most difficult but the legal challenges that will arise out of their usage. “People are going to be identified and there are going to be errors. If a file exists, there needs to be the possibility for individuals to appear before justice and have access to a judge.”

    A societal uproar

    In a research paper titled “Refugee protection in the artificial intelligence Era”, Chatham House notes “the most common ethical and legal challenges associated with the use of AI in asylum and related border and immigration systems involve issues of opacity and unpredictability, the potential for bias and unlawful discrimination, and how such factors affect the ability of individuals to obtain a remedy in the event of erroneous or unfair decisions.”

    For Cahn, the UK government’s usage of AI can only be used to justify and reinforce its hardline position against migrants. “For a government that doesn’t respect the Geneva Convention [whose core principle is non-refoulement, editor’s note] and which passed an illegal migration law, it is out of the question that migrants have entered the territory legally.”

    Identifying migrants crossing the Channel is not going to be the hardest part for the UK government. Cahn imagines a societal backlash with, “the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom being solicited, refugees seeking remedies to legal decisions through lawyers and associations attacking”.

    He added there would be due process concerning the storage of the data, with judges issuing disclosure orders. “There is going to be a whole series of questions which the government will have to elucidate. The rights of refugees are often used as a laboratory. If these technologies are ’successful’, they will soon be applied to the rest of the population."

    https://www.infomigrants.net/en/post/48326/uk-signs-contract-with-us-startup-to-identify-migrants-in-smallboat-cr

    #UK #Angleterre #migrations #asile #réfugiés #militarisation_des_frontières #frontières #start-up #complexe_militaro-industriel #IA #intelligence_artificielle #surveillance #technologie #channel #Manche

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    ajouté à la métaliste sur la Bibby Stockholm:
    https://seenthis.net/messages/1016683

    • Huge barge set to house 500 asylum seekers arrives in the UK

      The #Bibby_Stockholm is being refitted in #Falmouth to increase its capacity from 222 to 506 people.

      A barge set to house 500 asylum seekers has arrived in the UK as the government struggles with efforts to move migrants out of hotels.

      The Independent understands that people will not be transferred onto the Bibby Stockholm until July, following refurbishment to increase its capacity and safety checks.

      The barge has been towed from its former berth in Italy to the port of Falmouth, in Cornwall.

      It will remain there while works are carried out, before being moved onto its final destination in #Portland, Dorset.

      The private operators of the port struck an agreement to host the barge with the Home Office without formal public consultation, angering the local council and residents.

      Conservative MP Richard Drax previously told The Independent legal action was still being considered to stop the government’s plans for what he labelled a “quasi-prison”.

      He accused ministers and Home Office officials of being “unable to answer” practical questions on how the barge will operate, such as how asylum seekers will be able to come and go safely through the port, what activities they will be provided with and how sufficient healthcare will be ensured.

      “The question is how do we cope?” Mr Drax said. “Every organisation has its own raft of questions: ‘Where’s the money coming from? Who’s going to do what if this all happens?’ There are not sufficient answers, which is very worrying.”

      The Independent previously revealed that asylum seekers will have less living space than an average parking bay on the Bibby Stockholm, which saw at least one person die and reports of rape and abuse on board when it was used by the Dutch government to detain migrants in the 2000s.

      An official brochure released by owner Bibby Marine shows there are only 222 “single en-suite bedrooms” on board, meaning that at least two people must be crammed into every cabin for the government to achieve its aim of holding 500 people.

      Dorset Council has said it still had “serious reservations about the appropriateness of Portland Port in this scenario and remains opposed to the proposals”.

      The Conservative police and crime commissioner for Dorset is demanding extra government funding for the local force to “meet the extra policing needs that this project will entail”.

      A multi-agency forum including representatives from national, regional and local public sector agencies has been looking at plans for the provision of health services, the safety and security of both asylum seekers and local residents and charity involvement.

      Portland Port said it had been working with the Home Office and local agencies to ensure the safe arrival and operation of the Bibby Stockholm, and to minimise its impact locally.

      The barge is part of a wider government push to move migrants out of hotels, which are currently housing more than 47,000 asylum seekers at a cost of £6m a day.

      But the use of ships as accommodation was previously ruled out on cost grounds by the Treasury, when Rishi Sunak was chancellor, and the government has not confirmed how much it will be spending on the scheme.

      Ministers have also identified several former military and government sites, including two defunct airbases and an empty prison, that they want to transform into asylum accommodation.

      But a court battle with Braintree District Council over former RAF Wethersfield is ongoing, and legal action has also been threatened over similar plans for RAF Scampton in Lancashire.

      Last month, a barrister representing home secretary Suella Braverman told the High Court that 56,000 people were expected to arrive on small boats in 2023 and that some could be made homeless if hotel places are not found.

      A record backlog of asylum applications, driven by the increase in Channel crossings and a collapse in Home Office decision-making, mean the government is having to provide accommodation for longer while claims are considered.

      https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/barge-falmouth-cornwall-migrants-bibby-b2333313.html
      #barge #bateau

    • ‘Performative cruelty’ : the hostile architecture of the UK government’s migrant barge

      The arrival of the Bibby Stockholm barge at Portland Port, in Dorset, on July 18 2023, marks a new low in the UK government’s hostile immigration environment. The vessel is set to accommodate over 500 asylum seekers. This, the Home Office argues, will benefit British taxpayers and local residents.

      The barge, however, was immediately rejected by the local population and Dorset council. Several British charities and church groups have condemned the barge, and the illegal migration bill it accompanies, as “an affront to human dignity”.

      Anti-immigration groups have also protested against the barge, with some adopting offensive language, referring to the asylum seekers who will be hosted there as “bargies”. Conservative MP for South Dorset Richard Drax has claimed that hosting migrants at sea would exacerbate tenfold the issues that have arisen in hotels to date, namely sexual assaults, children disappearing and local residents protesting.

      My research shows that facilities built to house irregular migrants in Europe and beyond create a temporary infrastructure designed to be hostile. Governments thereby effectively make asylum seekers more displaceable while ignoring their everyday spatial and social needs.
      Precarious space

      The official brochure plans for the Bibby Stockholm show 222 single bedrooms over three stories, built around two small internal courtyards. It has now been retrofitted with bunk beds to host more than 500 single men – more than double the number it was designed to host.

      Journalists Lizzie Dearden and Martha McHardy have shown this means the asylum seekers housed there – for up to nine months – will have “less living space than an average parking bay”. This stands in contravention of international standards of a minimum 4.5m² of covered living space per person in cold climates, where more time is spent indoors.

      In an open letter, dated June 15 2023 and addressed to home secretary Suella Braverman, over 700 people and nearly 100 non-governmental organisations (NGOs) voiced concerns that this will only add to the trauma migrants have already experienced:

      Housing people on a sea barge – which we argue is equal to a floating prison – is morally indefensible, and threatens to retraumatise a group of already vulnerable people.

      Locals are concerned already overstretched services in Portland, including GP practices, will not be able to cope with further pressure. West Dorset MP Chris Lode has questioned whether the barge itself is safe “to cope with double the weight that it was designed to bear”. A caller to the LBC radio station, meanwhile, has voiced concerns over the vessel’s very narrow and low fire escape routes, saying: “What they [the government] are effectively doing here is creating a potential Grenfell on water, a floating coffin.”

      Such fears are not unfounded. There have been several cases of fires destroying migrant camps in Europe, from the Grand-Synthe camp near Dunkirk in France, in 2017, to the 2020 fire at the Moria camp in Greece. The difficulty of escaping a vessel at sea could turn it into a death trap.

      Performative hostility

      Research on migrant accommodation shows that being able to inhabit a place – even temporarily – and develop feelings of attachment and belonging, is crucial to a person’s wellbeing. Even amid ever tighter border controls, migrants in Europe, who can be described as “stuck on the move”, nonetheless still attempt to inhabit their temporary spaces and form such connections.

      However, designs can hamper such efforts when they concentrate asylum seekers in inhospitable, cut-off spaces. In 2015, Berlin officials began temporarily housing refugees in the former Tempelhof airport, a noisy, alienating industrial space, lacking in privacy and disconnected from the city. Many people ended up staying there for the better part of a year.

      French authorities, meanwhile, opened the Centre Humanitaire Paris-Nord in Paris in 2016, temporary migrant housing in a disused train depot. Nicknamed la Bulle (the bubble) for its bulbous inflatable covering, this facility was noisy and claustrophobic, lacking in basic comforts.

      Like the barge in Portland Port, these facilities, placed in industrial sites, sit uncomfortably between hospitality and hostility. The barge will be fenced off, since the port is a secured zone, and access will be heavily restricted and controlled. The Home Office insists that the barge is not a floating prison, yet it is an unmistakably hostile space.

      Infrastructure for water and electricity will physically link the barge to shore. However, Dorset council has no jurisdiction at sea.

      The commercial agreement on the barge was signed between the Home Office and Portland Port, not the council. Since the vessel is positioned below the mean low water mark, it did not require planning permission.

      This makes the barge an island of sorts, where other rules apply, much like those islands in the Aegean sea and in the Pacific, on which Greece and Australia have respectively housed migrants.

      I have shown how facilities are often designed in this way not to give displaced people any agency, but, on the contrary, to objectify them. They heighten the instability migrants face, keeping them detached from local communities and constantly on the move.

      The government has presented the barge as a cheaper solution than the £6.8 million it is currently spending, daily, on housing asylum seekers in hotels. A recent report by two NGOs, Reclaim the Seas and One Life to Live, concludes, however, that it will save less than £10 a person a day. It could even prove more expensive than the hotel model.

      Sarah Teather, director of the Jesuit Refugee Service UK charity, has described the illegal migration bill as “performative cruelty”. Images of the barge which have flooded the news certainly meet that description too.

      However threatening these images might be, though, they will not stop desperate people from attempting to come to the UK to seek safety. Rather than deterring asylum seekers, the Bibby Stockholm is potentially creating another hazard to them and to their hosting communities.

      https://theconversation.com/performative-cruelty-the-hostile-architecture-of-the-uk-governments

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      Point intéressant, lié à l’aménagement du territoire :

      “Since the vessel is positioned below the mean low water mark, it did not require planning permission”

      C’est un peu comme les #zones_frontalières qui ont été créées un peu partout en Europe (et pas que) pour que les Etats se débarassent des règles en vigueur (notamment le principe du non-refoulement). Voir cette métaliste, à laquelle j’ajoute aussi cet exemple :
      https://seenthis.net/messages/795053

      voir aussi :

      The circumstances at Portland Port are very different because where the barge is to be positioned is below the mean low water mark. This means that the barge is outside of our planning control and there is no requirement for planning permission from the council.

      https://news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/2023/07/18/leaders-comments-on-the-home-office-barge

      #hostile_architecture #architecture_hostile #dignité #espace #Portland #hostilité #hostilité_performative #île #infrastructure #extraterritorialité #extra-territorialité #prix #coût

    • Sur l’#histoire (notamment liées au commerce d’ #esclaves) de la Bibby Stockholm :

      Bibby Line, shipowners

      Information
      From Guide to the Records of Merseyside Maritime Museum, volume 1: Bibby Line. In 1807 John Bibby and John Highfield, Liverpool shipbrokers, began taking shares in ships, mainly Parkgate Dublin packets. By 1821 (the end of the partnership) they had vessels sailing to the Mediterranean and South America. In 1850 they expanded their Mediterranean and Black Sea interests by buying two steamers and by 1865 their fleet had increased to twenty three. The opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 severely affected their business and Frederick Leyland, their general manager, failed to persuade the family partners to diversify onto the Atlantic. Eventually, he bought them out in 1873. In 1889 the Bibby family revived its shipowning interests with a successful passenger cargo service to Burma. From 1893 it also began to carry British troops to overseas postings which remained a Bibby staple until 1962. The Burma service ended in 1971 and the company moved to new areas of shipowning including bulkers, gas tankers and accommodation barges. It still has its head office in Liverpool where most management records are held. The museum holds models of the Staffordshire (1929) and Oxfordshire (1955). For further details see the attached catalogue or contact The Archives Centre for a copy of the catalogue.

      The earliest records within the collection, the ships’ logs at B/BIBBY/1/1/1 - 1/1/3 show company vessels travelling between Europe and South America carrying cargoes that would have been produced on plantations using the labour of enslaved peoples or used within plantation and slave based economies. For example the vessel Thomas (B/BIBBY/1/1/1) carries a cargo of iron hoops for barrels to Brazil in 1812. The Mary Bibby on a voyage in 1825-1826 loads a cargo of sugar in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to carry to Rotterdam. The log (B/BIBBY/1/1/3) records the use of ’negroes’ to work with the ship’s carpenter while the vessel is in port.

      In September 1980 the latest Bibby vessel to hold the name Derbyshire was lost with all hands in the South China Sea. This collection does not include records relating to that vessel or its sinking, apart from a copy ’Motor vessel ’Derbyshire’, 1976-80: in memoriam’ at reference B/BIBBY/3/2/1 (a copy is also available in The Archives Centre library collection at 340.DER). Information about the sinking and subsequent campaigning by the victims’ family can be found on the NML website and in the Life On Board gallery. The Archives Centre holds papers of Captain David Ramwell who assisted the Derbyshire Family Association at D/RAM and other smaller collections of related documents within the DX collection.

      https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/artifact/bibby-line-shipowners

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      An Open Letter to #Bibby_Marine

      Links between your parent company #Bibby_Line_Group (#BLG) and the slave trade have repeatedly been made. If true, we appeal to you to consider what actions you might take in recompense.

      Bibby Marine’s modern slavery statement says that one of the company’s values is to “do the right thing”, and that you “strongly support the eradication of slavery, as well as the eradication of servitude, forced or compulsory labour and human trafficking”. These are admirable words.

      Meanwhile, your parent company’s website says that it is “family owned with a rich history”. Please will you clarify whether this rich history includes slaving voyages where ships were owned, and cargoes transported, by BLG’s founder John Bibby, six generations ago. The BLG website says that in 1807 (which is when slavery was abolished in Britain), “John Bibby began trading as a shipowner in Liverpool with his partner John Highfield”. John Bibby is listed as co-owner of three slaving ships, of which John Highfield co-owned two:

      In 1805, the Harmonie (co-owned by #John_Bibby and three others, including John Highfield) left Liverpool for a voyage which carried 250 captives purchased in West Central Africa and St Helena, delivering them to Cumingsberg in 1806 (see the SlaveVoyages database using Voyage ID 81732).
      In 1806, the Sally (co-owned by John Bibby and two others) left Liverpool for a voyage which transported 250 captives purchased in Bassa and delivered them to Barbados (see the SlaveVoyages database using Voyage ID 83481).
      In 1806, the Eagle (co-owned by John Bibby and four others, including John Highfield) left Liverpool for a voyage which transported 237 captives purchased in Cameroon and delivered them to Kingston in 1807 (see the SlaveVoyages database using Voyage ID 81106).

      The same and related claims were recently mentioned by Private Eye. They also appear in the story of Liverpool’s Calderstones Park [PDF] and on the website of National Museums Liverpool and in this blog post “Shenanigans in Shipping” (a detailed history of the BLG). They are also mentioned by Laurence Westgaph, a TV presenter specialising in Black British history and slavery and the author of Read The Signs: Street Names with a Connection to the Transatlantic Slave Trade and Abolition in Liverpool [PDF], published with the support of English Heritage, The City of Liverpool, Northwest Regional Development Agency, National Museums Liverpool and Liverpool Vision.

      While of course your public pledges on slavery underline that there is no possibility of there being any link between the activities of John Bibby and John Highfield in the early 1800s and your activities in 2023, we do believe that it is in the public interest to raise this connection, and to ask for a public expression of your categorical renunciation of the reported slave trade activities of Mr Bibby and Mr Highfield.

      https://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/latest/news/an-open-letter-to-bibby-marine

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      Très peu d’info sur John Bibby sur wikipedia :

      John Bibby (19 February 1775 – 17 July 1840) was the founder of the British Bibby Line shipping company. He was born in Eccleston, near Ormskirk, Lancashire. He was murdered on 17 July 1840 on his way home from dinner at a friend’s house in Kirkdale.[1]


      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bibby_(businessman)

    • ‘Floating Prisons’: The 200-year-old family #business behind the Bibby Stockholm

      #Bibby_Line_Group_Limited is a UK company offering financial, marine and construction services to clients in at least 16 countries around the world. It recently made headlines after the government announced one of the firm’s vessels, Bibby Stockholm, would be used to accommodate asylum seekers on the Dorset coast.

      In tandem with plans to house migrants at surplus military sites, the move was heralded by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Home Secretary Suella Braverman as a way of mitigating the £6m-a-day cost of hotel accommodation amid the massive ongoing backlog of asylum claims, as well as deterring refugees from making the dangerous channel crossing to the UK. Several protests have been organised against the project already, while over ninety migrants’ rights groups and hundreds of individual campaigners have signed an open letter to the Home Secretary calling for the plans to be scrapped, describing the barge as a “floating prison.”

      Corporate Watch has researched into the Bibby Line Group’s operations and financial interests. We found that:

      - The Bibby Stockholm vessel was previously used as a floating detention centre in the Netherlands, where undercover reporting revealed violence, sexual exploitation and poor sanitation.

      – Bibby Line Group is more than 90% owned by members of the Bibby family, primarily through trusts. Its pre-tax profits for 2021 stood at almost £31m, which they upped to £35.5m by claiming generous tax credits and deferring a fair amount to the following year.

      - Management aboard the vessel will be overseen by an Australian business travel services company, Corporate Travel Management, who have previously had aspersions cast over the financial health of their operations and the integrity of their business practices.

      - Another beneficiary of the initiative is Langham Industries, a maritime and engineering company whose owners, the Langham family, have longstanding ties to right wing parties.

      Key Issues

      According to the Home Office, the Bibby Stockholm barge will be operational for at least 18 months, housing approximately 500 single adult men while their claims are processed, with “24/7 security in place on board, to minimise the disruption to local communities.” These measures appear to have been to dissuade opposition from the local Conservative council, who pushed for background checks on detainees and were reportedly even weighing legal action out of concern for a perceived threat of physical attacks from those housed onboard, as well as potential attacks from the far right against migrants held there.

      Local campaigners have taken aim at the initiative, noting in the open letter:

      “For many people seeking asylum arriving in the UK, the sea represents a site of significant trauma as they have been forced to cross it on one or more occasions. Housing people on a sea barge – which we argue is equal to a floating prison – is morally indefensible, and threatens to re-traumatise a group of already vulnerable people.”

      Technically, migrants on the barge will be able to leave the site. However, in reality they will be under significant levels of surveillance and cordoned off behind fences in the high security port area.

      If they leave, there is an expectation they will return by 11pm, and departure will be controlled by the authorities. According to the Home Office:

      “In order to ensure that migrants come and go in an orderly manner with as little impact as possible, buses will be provided to take those accommodated on the vessel from the port to local drop off points”.

      These drop off points are to be determined by the government, while being sited off the coast of Dorset means they will be isolated from centres of support and solidarity.

      Meanwhile, the government’s new Illegal Migration Bill is designed to provide a legal justification for the automatic detention of refugees crossing the Channel. If it passes, there’s a chance this might set the stage for a change in regime on the Bibby Stockholm – from that of an “accommodation centre” to a full-blown migrant prison.

      An initial release from the Home Office suggested the local voluntary sector would be engaged “to organise activities that keep occupied those being accommodated, potentially involved in local volunteering activity,” though they seemed to have changed the wording after critics said this would mean detainees could be effectively exploited for unpaid labour. It’s also been reported the vessel required modifications in order to increase capacity to the needed level, raising further concerns over cramped living conditions and a lack of privacy.

      Bibby Line Group has prior form in border profiteering. From 1994 to 1998, the Bibby Stockholm was used to house the homeless, some of whom were asylum seekers, in Hamburg, Germany. In 2005, it was used to detain asylum seekers in the Netherlands, which proved a cause of controversy at the time. Undercover reporting revealed a number of cases abuse on board, such as beatings and sexual exploitation, as well suicide attempts, routine strip searches, scabies and the death of an Algerian man who failed to receive timely medical care for a deteriorating heart condition. As the undercover security guard wrote:

      “The longer I work on the Bibby Stockholm, the more I worry about safety on the boat. Between exclusion and containment I encounter so many defects and feel so much tension among the prisoners that it no longer seems to be a question of whether things will get completely out of hand here, but when.”

      He went on:

      “I couldn’t stand the way prisoners were treated […] The staff become like that, because the whole culture there is like that. Inhuman. They do not see the residents as people with a history, but as numbers.”

      Discussions were also held in August 2017 over the possibility of using the vessel as accommodation for some 400 students in Galway, Ireland, amid the country’s housing crisis. Though the idea was eventually dropped for lack of mooring space and planning permission requirements, local students had voiced safety concerns over the “bizarre” and “unconventional” solution to a lack of rental opportunities.
      Corporate Travel Management & Langham Industries

      Although leased from Bibby Line Group, management aboard the Bibby Stockholm itself will be handled by #Corporate_Travel_Management (#CTM), a global travel company specialising in business travel services. The Australian-headquartered company also recently received a £100m contract for the provision of accommodation, travel, venue and ancillary booking services for the housing of Ukrainian refugees at local hotels and aboard cruise ships M/S Victoria and M/S Ambition. The British Red Cross warned earlier in May against continuing to house refugees on ships with “isolated” and “windowless” cabins, and said the scheme had left many “living in limbo.”

      Founded by CEO #Jamie_Pherous, CTM was targeted in 2018 by #VGI_Partners, a group of short-sellers, who identified more than 20 red flags concerning the company’s business interests. Most strikingly, the short-sellers said they’d attended CTM’s offices in Glasgow, Paris, Amsterdam, Stockholm and Switzerland. Finding no signs of business activity there, they said it was possible the firm had significantly overstated the scale of its operations. VGI Partners also claimed CTM’s cash flows didn’t seem to add up when set against the company’s reported growth, and that CTM hadn’t fully disclosed revisions they’d made to their annual revenue figures.

      Two years later, the short-sellers released a follow-up report, questioning how CTM had managed to report a drop in rewards granted for high sales numbers to travel agencies, when in fact their transaction turnover had grown during the same period. They also accused CTM of dressing up their debt balance to make their accounts look healthier.

      CTM denied VGI Partners’ allegations. In their response, they paraphrased a report by auditors EY, supposedly confirming there were no question marks over their business practices, though the report itself was never actually made public. They further claim VGI Partners, as short-sellers, had only released the reports in the hope of benefitting from uncertainty over CTM’s operations.

      Despite these troubles, CTM’s market standing improved drastically earlier this year, when it was announced the firm had secured contracts for the provision of travel services to the UK Home Office worth in excess of $3bn AUD (£1.6bn). These have been accompanied by further tenders with, among others, the National Audit Office, HS2, Cafcass, Serious Fraud Office, Office of National Statistics, HM Revenue & Customs, National Health Service, Ministry of Justice, Department of Education, Foreign Office, and the Equality and Human Rights Commission.

      The Home Office has not released any figures on the cost of either leasing or management services aboard Bibby Stockholm, though press reports have put the estimated price tag at more than £20,000 a day for charter and berthing alone. If accurate, this would put the overall expenditure for the 18-month period in which the vessel will operate as a detention centre at almost £11m, exclusive of actual detention centre management costs such as security, food and healthcare.

      Another beneficiary of the project are Portland Port’s owners, #Langham_Industries, a maritime and engineering company owned by the #Langham family. The family has long-running ties to right-wing parties. Langham Industries donated over £70,000 to the UK Independence Party from 2003 up until the 2016 Brexit referendum. In 2014, Langham Industries donated money to support the re-election campaign of former Clacton MP for UKIP Douglas Carswell, shortly after his defection from the Conservatives. #Catherine_Langham, a Tory parish councillor for Hilton in Dorset, has described herself as a Langham Industries director (although she is not listed on Companies House). In 2016 she was actively involved in local efforts to support the campaign to leave the European Union. The family holds a large estate in Dorset which it uses for its other line of business, winemaking.

      At present, there is no publicly available information on who will be providing security services aboard the Bibby Stockholm.

      Business Basics

      Bibby Line Group describes itself as “one of the UK’s oldest family owned businesses,” operating in “multiple countries, employing around 1,300 colleagues, and managing over £1 billion of funds.” Its head office is registered in Liverpool, with other headquarters in Scotland, Hong Kong, India, Singapore, Malaysia, France, Slovakia, Czechia, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland and Nigeria (see the appendix for more). The company’s primary sectors correspond to its three main UK subsidiaries:

      #Bibby_Financial_Services. A global provider of financial services. The firm provides loans to small- and medium-sized businesses engaged in business services, construction, manufacturing, transportation, export, recruitment and wholesale markets. This includes invoice financing, export and trade finance, and foreign exchanges. Overall, the subsidiary manages more than £6bn each year on behalf of some 9,000 clients across 300 different industry sectors, and in 2021 it brought in more than 50% of the group’s annual turnover.

      - #Bibby_Marine_Limited. Owner and operator of the Bibby WaveMaster fleet, a group of vessels specialising in the transport and accommodation of workers employed at remote locations, such as offshore oil and gas sites in the North Sea. Sometimes, as in the case of Chevron’s Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) project in Nigeria, the vessels are used as an alternative to hotels owing to a “a volatile project environment.” The fleet consists of 40 accommodation vessels similar in size to the Bibby Stockholm and a smaller number of service vessels, though the share of annual turnover pales compared to the group’s financial services operations, standing at just under 10% for 2021.

      - #Garic Ltd. Confined to construction, quarrying, airport, agriculture and transport sectors in the UK, the firm designs, manufactures and purchases plant equipment and machinery for sale or hire. Garic brought in around 14% of Bibby Line Group’s turnover in 2021.

      Prior to February 2021, Bibby Line Group also owned #Costcutter_Supermarkets_Group, before it was sold to #Bestway_Wholesale to maintain liquidity amid the Covid-19 pandemic. In their report for that year, the company’s directors also suggested grant funding from #MarRI-UK, an organisation facilitating innovation in maritime technologies and systems, had been important in preserving the firm’s position during the crisis.
      History

      The Bibby Line Group’s story begins in 1807, when Lancashire-born shipowner John Bibby began trading out of Liverpool with partner John Highfield. By the time of his death in 1840, murdered while returning home from dinner with a friend in Kirkdale, Bibby had struck out on his own and come to manage a fleet of more than 18 ships. The mysterious case of his death has never been solved, and the business was left to his sons John and James.

      Between 1891 and 1989, the company operated under the name #Bibby_Line_Limited. Its ships served as hospital and transport vessels during the First World War, as well as merchant cruisers, and the company’s entire fleet of 11 ships was requisitioned by the state in 1939.

      By 1970, the company had tripled its overseas earnings, branching into ‘factoring’, or invoice financing (converting unpaid invoices into cash for immediate use via short-term loans) in the early 1980s, before this aspect of the business was eventually spun off into Bibby Financial Services. The group acquired Garic Ltd in 2008, which currently operates four sites across the UK.

      People

      #Jonathan_Lewis has served as Bibby Line Group’s Managing and Executive Director since January 2021, prior to which he acted as the company’s Chief Financial and Strategy Officer since joining in 2019. Previously, Lewis worked as CFO for Imagination Technologies, a tech company specialising in semiconductors, and as head of supermarket Tesco’s mergers and acquisitions team. He was also a member of McKinsey’s European corporate finance practice, as well as an investment banker at Lazard. During his first year at the helm of Bibby’s operations, he was paid £748,000. Assuming his role at the head of the group’s operations, he replaced Paul Drescher, CBE, then a board member of the UK International Chamber of Commerce and a former president of the Confederation of British Industry.

      Bibby Line Group’s board also includes two immediate members of the Bibby family, Sir #Michael_James_Bibby, 3rd Bt. and his younger brother #Geoffrey_Bibby. Michael has acted as company chairman since 2020, before which he had occupied senior management roles in the company for 20 years. He also has external experience, including time at Unilever’s acquisitions, disposals and joint venture divisions, and now acts as president of the UK Chamber of Shipping, chairman of the Charities Trust, and chairman of the Institute of Family Business Research Foundation.

      Geoffrey has served as a non-executive director of the company since 2015, having previously worked as a managing director of Vast Visibility Ltd, a digital marketing and technology company. In 2021, the Bibby brothers received salaries of £125,000 and £56,000 respectively.

      The final member of the firm’s board is #David_Anderson, who has acted as non-executive director since 2012. A financier with 35 years experience in investment banking, he’s founder and CEO of EPL Advisory – which advises company boards on requirements and disclosure obligations of public markets – and chair of Creative Education Trust, a multi-academy trust comprising 17 schools. Anderson is also chairman at multinational ship broker Howe Robinson Partners, which recently auctioned off a superyacht seized from Dmitry Pumpyansky, after the sanctioned Russian businessman reneged on a €20.5m loan from JP Morgan. In 2021, Anderson’s salary stood at £55,000.

      Ownership

      Bibby Line Group’s annual report and accounts for 2021 state that more than 90% of the company is owned by members of the Bibby family, primarily through family trusts. These ownership structures, effectively entities allowing people to benefit from assets without being their registered legal owners, have long attracted staunch criticism from transparency advocates given the obscurity they afford means they often feature extensively in corruption, money laundering and tax abuse schemes.

      According to Companies House, the UK corporate registry, between 50% and 75% of Bibby Line Group’s shares and voting rights are owned by #Bibby_Family_Company_Limited, which also retains the right to appoint and remove members of the board. Directors of Bibby Family Company Limited include both the Bibby brothers, as well as a third sibling, #Peter_John_Bibby, who’s formally listed as the firm’s ‘ultimate beneficial owner’ (i.e. the person who ultimately profits from the company’s assets).

      Other people with comparable shares in Bibby Family Company Limited are #Mark_Rupert_Feeny, #Philip_Charles_Okell, and Lady #Christine_Maud_Bibby. Feeny’s occupation is listed as solicitor, with other interests in real estate management and a position on the board of the University of Liverpool Pension Fund Trustees Limited. Okell meanwhile appears as director of Okell Money Management Limited, a wealth management firm, while Lady Bibby, Michael and Geoffrey’s mother, appears as “retired playground supervisor.”

      Key Relationships

      Bibby Line Group runs an internal ‘Donate a Day’ volunteer program, enabling employees to take paid leave in order to “help causes they care about.” Specific charities colleagues have volunteered with, listed in the company’s Annual Review for 2021 to 2022, include:

      - The Hive Youth Zone. An award-winning charity for young people with disabilities, based in the Wirral.

      – The Whitechapel Centre. A leading homeless and housing charity in the Liverpool region, working with people sleeping rough, living in hostels, or struggling with their accommodation.

      - Let’s Play Project. Another charity specialising in after-school and holiday activities for young people with additional needs in the Banbury area.

      - Whitdale House. A care home for the elderly, based in Whitburn, West Lothian and run by the local council.

      – DEBRA. An Irish charity set up in 1988 for individuals living with a rare, painful skin condition called epidermolysis bullosa, as well as their families.

      – Reaching Out Homeless Outreach. A non-profit providing resources and support to the homeless in Ireland.

      Various senior executives and associated actors at Bibby Line Group and its subsidiaries also have current and former ties to the following organisations:

      - UK Chamber of Shipping

      - Charities Trust

      - Institute of Family Business Research Foundation

      - Indefatigable Old Boys Association

      - Howe Robinson Partners

      - hibu Ltd

      - EPL Advisory

      - Creative Education Trust

      - Capita Health and Wellbeing Limited

      - The Ambassador Theatre Group Limited

      – Pilkington Plc

      – UK International Chamber of Commerce

      – Confederation of British Industry

      – Arkley Finance Limited (Weatherby’s Banking Group)

      – FastMarkets Ltd, Multiple Sclerosis Society

      – Early Music as Education

      – Liverpool Pension Fund Trustees Limited

      – Okell Money Management Limited

      Finances

      For the period ending 2021, Bibby Line Group’s total turnover stood at just under £260m, with a pre-tax profit of almost £31m – fairly healthy for a company providing maritime services during a global pandemic. Their post-tax profits in fact stood at £35.5m, an increase they would appear to have secured by claiming generous tax credits (£4.6m) and deferring a fair amount (£8.4m) to the following year.

      Judging by their last available statement on the firm’s profitability, Bibby’s directors seem fairly confident the company has adequate financing and resources to continue operations for the foreseeable future. They stress their February 2021 sale of Costcutter was an important step in securing this, given it provided additional liquidity during the pandemic, as well as the funding secured for R&D on fuel consumption by Bibby Marine’s fleet.
      Scandal Sheet

      Bibby Line Group and its subsidiaries have featured in a number of UK legal proceedings over the years, sometimes as defendants. One notable case is Godfrey v Bibby Line, a lawsuit brought against the company in 2019 after one of their former employees died as the result of an asbestos-related disease.

      In their claim, the executors of Alan Peter Godfrey’s estate maintained that between 1965 and 1972, he was repeatedly exposed to large amounts of asbestos while working on board various Bibby vessels. Although the link between the material and fatal lung conditions was established as early as 1930, they claimed that Bibby Line, among other things:

      “Failed to warn the deceased of the risk of contracting asbestos related disease or of the precautions to be taken in relation thereto;

      “Failed to heed or act upon the expert evidence available to them as to the best means of protecting their workers from danger from asbestos dust; [and]

      “Failed to take all reasonably practicable measures, either by securing adequate ventilation or by the provision and use of suitable respirators or otherwise, to prevent inhalation of dust.”

      The lawsuit, which claimed “unlimited damage”’ against the group, also stated that Mr Godfrey’s “condition deteriorated rapidly with worsening pain and debility,” and that he was “completely dependent upon others for his needs by the last weeks of his life.” There is no publicly available information on how the matter was concluded.

      In 2017, Bibby Line Limited also featured in a leak of more than 13.4 million financial records known as the Paradise Papers, specifically as a client of Appleby, which provided “offshore corporate services” such as legal and accountancy work. According to the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, a global network of investigative media outlets, leaked Appleby documents revealed, among other things, “the ties between Russia and [Trump’s] billionaire commerce secretary, the secret dealings of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s chief fundraiser and the offshore interests of the Queen of England and more than 120 politicians around the world.”

      This would not appear to be the Bibby group’s only link to the shady world of offshore finance. Michael Bibby pops up as a treasurer for two shell companies registered in Panama, Minimar Transport S.A. and Vista Equities Inc.
      Looking Forward

      Much about the Bibby Stockholm saga remains to be seen. The exact cost of the initiative and who will be providing security services on board, are open questions. What’s clear however is that activists will continue to oppose the plans, with efforts to prevent the vessel sailing from Falmouth to its final docking in Portland scheduled to take place on 30th June.

      Appendix: Company Addresses

      HQ and general inquiries: 3rd Floor Walker House, Exchange Flags, Liverpool, United Kingdom, L2 3YL

      Tel: +44 (0) 151 708 8000

      Other offices, as of 2021:

      6, Shenton Way, #18-08A Oue Downtown 068809, Singapore

      1/1, The Exchange Building, 142 St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, G2 5LA, United Kingdom

      4th Floor Heather House, Heather Road, Sandyford, Dublin 18, Ireland

      Unit 2302, 23/F Jubilee Centre, 18 Fenwick Street, Wanchai, Hong Kong

      Unit 508, Fifth Floor, Metropolis Mall, MG Road, Gurugram, Haryana, 122002 India

      Suite 7E, Level 7, Menara Ansar, 65 Jalan Trus, 8000 Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia

      160 Avenue Jean Jaures, CS 90404, 69364 Lyon Cedex, France

      Prievozská 4D, Block E, 13th Floor, Bratislava 821 09, Slovak Republic

      Hlinky 118, Brno, 603 00, Czech Republic

      Laan Van Diepenvoorde 5, 5582 LA, Waalre, Netherlands

      Hansaallee 249, 40549 Düsseldorf, Germany

      Poland Eurocentrum, Al. Jerozolimskie 134, 02-305 Warsaw, Poland

      1/2 Atarbekova str, 350062, Krasnodar, Krasnodar

      1 St Peter’s Square, Manchester, M2 3AE, United Kingdom

      25 Adeyemo Alakija Street, Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria

      10 Anson Road, #09-17 International Plaza, 079903 Singapore

      https://corporatewatch.org/floating-prisons-the-200-year-old-family-business-behind-the-bibby-s

      signalé ici aussi par @rezo:
      https://seenthis.net/messages/1010504

    • The Langham family seem quite happy to support right-wing political parties that are against immigration, while at the same time profiting handsomely from the misery of refugees who are forced to claim sanctuary here.


      https://twitter.com/PositiveActionH/status/1687817910364884992

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      Family firm ’profiteering from misery’ by providing migrant barges donated £70k to #UKIP

      The Langham family, owners of Langham Industries, is now set to profit from an 18-month contract with the Home Office to let the Bibby Stockholm berth at Portland, Dorset

      A family firm that donated more than £70,000 to UKIP is “profiteering from misery” by hosting the Government’s controversial migrant barge. Langham Industries owns Portland Port, where the Bibby Stockholm is docked in a deal reported to be worth some £2.5million.

      The Langham family owns luxurious properties and has links to high-profile politicians, including Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden. And we can reveal that their business made 19 donations to pro-Brexit party UKIP between 2003 and 2016.

      Late founder John Langham was described as an “avid supporter” of UKIP in an obituary in 2017. Now his children, John, Jill and Justin – all directors of the family firm – are set to profit from an 18-month contract with the Home Office to let the Bibby Stockholm berth at Portland, Dorset.

      While Portland Port refuses to reveal how much the Home Office is paying, its website cites berthing fees for a ship the size of the Bibby Stockholm at more than £4,000 a day. In 2011, Portland Port chairman John, 71, invested £3.7million in Grade II* listed country pile Steeple Manor at Wareham, Dorset. Dating to around 1600, it has a pond, tennis court and extensive gardens designed by the landscape architect Brenda Colvin.

      The arrangement to host the “prison-like” barge for housing migrants has led some locals to blast the Langhams, who have owned the port since 1997. Portland mayor Carralyn Parkes, 61, said: “I don’t know how John Langham will sleep at night in his luxurious home, with his tennis court and his fluffy bed, when asylum seekers are sleeping in tiny beds on the barge.

      “I went on the boat and measured the rooms with a tape measure. On average they are about 10ft by 12ft. The bunk bed mattresses are about 6ft long. If you’re taller than 6ft you’re stuffed. The Langham family need to have more humanity. They are only interested in making money. It’s shocking.”

      (#paywall)
      https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/family-firm-profiteering-misery-providing-30584405.amp

      #UK_Independence_Party

    • ‘This is a prison’: men tell of distressing conditions on Bibby Stockholm

      Asylum seekers share fears about Dorset barge becoming even more crowded, saying they already ‘despair and wish for death’

      Asylum seekers brought back to the Bibby Stockholm barge in Portland, Dorset, have said they are being treated in such a way that “we despair and wish for death”.

      The Guardian spoke to two men in their first interview since their return to the barge on 19 October after the vessel lay empty for more than two months. The presence of deadly legionella bacteria was confirmed on board on 7 August, the same day the first group of asylum seekers arrived. The barge was evacuated four days later.

      The new warning comes after it emerged that one asylum seeker attempted to kill himself and is in hospital after finding out he is due to be taken to the barge on Tuesday.

      A man currently on the barge told the Guardian: “Government decisions are turning healthy and normal refugees into mental patients whom they then hand over to society. Here, many people were healthy and coping with OK spirits, but as a result of the dysfunctional strategies of the government, they have suffered – and continue to suffer – from various forms of serious mental distress. We are treated in such a way that we despair and wish for death.”

      He said that although the asylum seekers were not detained on the barge and could leave to visit the nearby town, in practice, doing so was not easy.

      He added: “In the barge, we have exactly the feeling of being in prison. It is true that they say that this is not a prison and you can go outside at any time, but you can only go to specific stops at certain times by bus, and this does not give me a good feeling.

      “Even to use the fresh air, you have to go through the inspection every time and go to the small yard with high fences and go through the X-ray machine again. And this is not good for our health.

      “In short, this is a prison whose prisoners are not criminals, they are people who have fled their country just to save their lives and have taken shelter here to live.”

      The asylum seekers raised concerns about what conditions on the barge would be like if the Home Office did fill it with about 500 asylum seekers, as officials say is the plan. Those on board said it already felt quite full with about 70 people living there.

      The second asylum seeker said: “The space inside the barge is very small. It feels crowded in the dining hall and the small entertainment room. It is absolutely clear to me that there will be chaos here soon.

      “According to my estimate, as I look at the spaces around us, the capacity of this barge is maximum 120 people, including personnel and crew. The strategy of ​​transferring refugees from hotels to barges or ships or military installations is bound to fail.

      “The situation here on the barge is getting worse. Does the government have a plan for shipwrecked residents? Everyone here is going mad with anxiety. It is not just the barge that floats on the water, but the plans of the government that are radically adrift.”

      Maddie Harris of the NGO Humans For Rights Network, which supports asylum seekers in hotels, said: “Home Office policies directly contribute to the significant deterioration of the wellbeing and mental health of so many asylum seekers in their ‘care’, with a dehumanising environment, violent anti-migrant rhetoric and isolated accommodations away from community and lacking in support.”

      A Home Office spokesperson said: “The Bibby Stockholm is part of the government’s pledge to reduce the use of expensive hotels and bring forward alternative accommodation options which provide a more cost-effective, sustainable and manageable system for the UK taxpayer and local communities.

      “The health and welfare of asylum seekers remains the utmost priority. We work continually to ensure the needs and vulnerabilities of those residing in asylum accommodation are identified and considered, including those related to mental health and trauma.”

      Nadia Whittome and Lloyd Russell-Moyle, the Labour MPs for Nottingham East and Brighton Kemptown respectively, will travel to Portland on Monday to meet asylum seekers accommodated on the Bibby Stockholm barge and local community members.

      The visit follows the home secretary, Suella Braverman, not approving a visit from the MPs to assess living conditions as they requested through parliamentary channels.

      https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/oct/29/this-is-a-prison-men-tell-of-distressing-conditions-on-bibby-stockholm
      #prison #conditions_de_vie

  • Pour la sémiologue Cécile Alduy, “Emmanuel Macron bâtit un récit faisant de lui le nouveau souverain”
    https://www.telerama.fr/debats-reportages/pour-la-semiologue-cecile-alduy-emmanuel-macron-batit-un-recit-faisant-de-l

    Ses amours littéraires de jeunesse lui ont donné le goût du mot juste. Professeure à Stanford, Cécile Alduy pose un regard acéré sur la crise de sens que traverse actuellement notre pays.

    Des cortèges monstres dans toute la France, des forces de l’ordre aux allures de RoboCop, des guillotines en carton, un président qui s’exprime dans Pif Gadget, des pancartes brandies à l’Assemblée nationale comme dans une manifestation, un ministre de l’Intérieur qui met en cause la Ligue des droits de l’homme, son collègue chargé du travail traité d’« assassin », une secrétaire d’État à la Une de Playboy… La séquence politique, sociale et médiatique que nous traversons depuis trois mois, et plus encore depuis que le gouvernement a dégainé le 49.3 pour éviter le vote incertain des députés sur sa réforme des retraites, a pris l’allure d’un étourdissant tourbillon de paroles, de gestes, de symboles, dessinant une période pas toujours facile à comprendre tant ses ressorts s’avèrent multiples.

    #paywall

  • L’Intérieur compte acquérir 7 000 capteurs nomades de contrôles biométriques, pour 21 millions d’euros
    https://www.nextinpact.com/article/71444/linterieur-compte-acquerir-7-000-capteurs-nomades-controles-biometriques

    Le ministère de l’Intérieur profite du renouvèlement de son marché de capteurs d’empreintes digitales et de lecteurs de documents d’identité pour investir 1,6 million d’euros dans des « solutions de prises d’images faciales », plus 21 millions de « capteurs nomades d’empreintes digitales doigts et palmaires ».

    #police #paywall

  • #Immigration et #délinquance : réalités et perceptions

    Le projet de loi sur l’immigration qui devait être débattu au Parlement proposait de « rendre possible l’éloignement d’étrangers constituant une menace grave pour l’ordre public ». Une manière, peut-être, de répondre aux inquiétudes persistantes de ceux qui, dans les enquêtes d’opinion, estiment que l’immigration aggrave la délinquance. Pourtant, les études réalisées dans différents pays concluent sans ambiguïté que les immigrés ne sont pas à l’origine d’une augmentation des taux d’infraction dans les pays d’accueil. Et si les étrangers en situation irrégulière ont une probabilité plus forte de commettre des #vols, un meilleur accès au #marché_du_travail peut résorber cet écart. La surreprésentation des immigrés dans les #statistiques officielles mais aussi le traitement médiatique de la délinquance permettent de comprendre l’écart entre perceptions et #réalité. Lorsque les médias adoptent un traitement plus neutre de l’origine nationale ou étrangère des auteurs présumés d’infractions, les inquiétudes à l’égard de l’immigration se réduisent. C’est en tout cas ce que montre l’expérience allemande en la matière.

    http://www.cepii.fr/CEPII/fr/publications/lettre/abstract.asp?NoDoc=13737
    #criminalité #migrations #perception #médias

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    voir aussi le décryptage de @vivre :
    Comment s’explique la surreprésentation des étrangers dans la criminalité ?
    https://asile.ch/2012/10/06/andre-kuhn-comment-sexplique-la-surrepresentation-des-etrangers-dans-la-crimin
    https://seenthis.net/messages/511003
    #André_Kuhn

  • France Travail : les contours du futur service public de l’emploi se précisent
    https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2023/04/19/france-travail-les-contours-du-futur-service-public-de-l-emploi-se-precisent

    Promesse de campagne du candidat Macron en 2022, la création de France Travail est un outil primordial pour l’exécutif dans sa quête du plein-emploi – un taux de chômage à 5 %, contre un peu plus de 7 % aujourd’hui – à horizon 2027. Si la nouvelle structure va remplacer Pôle emploi, l’opérateur public actuel, l’ambition va bien au-delà et réforme tout le service public de l’emploi. « Compte tenu de la dispersion des acteurs et des responsabilités, aucun acteur, pas même l’Etat, n’est aujourd’hui en mesure d’identifier l’ensemble des personnes dépourvues d’emploi sur son territoire », déplore le rapport.

    Meilleure coordination

    C’est pour répondre à ce manque de coordination et sortir d’un fonctionnement en silo que doit être bâti le réseau France Travail. Ce dernier doit permettre à tous les acteurs de l’emploi et de l’inclusion de travailler ensemble. Les missions locales deviendront ainsi France Travail jeunes, et les Cap emploi France Travail handicap. Pour simplifier les échanges entre tous ces acteurs, l’opérateur France Travail doit devenir la porte d’entrée unique pour l’ensemble des demandeurs d’emploi avec un partage large des données.

    [...]
    L’objectif du futur service public de l’emploi est d’identifier rapidement les demandeurs d’emploi, avec pour objectif de les orienter vers la structure adéquate, en réduisant considérablement les délais à l’œuvre actuellement. Après cette première étape, France Travail doit « garantir des parcours de retour à l’emploi (…) adaptés au niveau d’autonomie et aux besoins de chacun », indique le rapport. Un contrat d’engagements réciproques sera alors signé entre le demandeur d’emploi et un référent individuel.

    [#RSA avec travail contraint] Une mesure d’#accompagnement_intensif potentiellement explosive politiquement. Pour démontrer son efficacité, Thibaut Guilluy compte s’appuyer sur les expérimentations menées depuis début avril (...)
    https://justpaste.it/ceb6p

    #France_travail : à quoi va ressembler le nouveau service de l’aide à l’#emploi
    https://www.lesechos.fr/economie-france/social/exclusif-france-travail-a-quoi-va-ressembler-le-nouveau-service-de-laide-a-

    Le ministre du #Travail, Olivier Dussopt, présente ce mercredi le rapport de la mission de préconfiguration du futur service national de l’emploi, promesse de campagne d’Emmanuel Macron. Objectif : plusieurs centaines de milliers d’emplois supplémentaires pour atteindre le #plein-emploi.

    #paywall

    • Avec France Travail, l’exécutif veut remettre les précaires au boulot, bâton à la main

      https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/economie-et-social/190423/avec-france-travail-l-executif-veut-remettre-les-precaires-au-boulot-baton

      L’exécutif a dévoilé les grandes lignes d’une vaste réforme du service public de l’emploi, prévue dès 2024. Pour atteindre le « plein-emploi », il prône une collaboration plus efficace de toutes les institutions existantes, une obligation d’inscription des bénéficiaires du RSA et une refonte du système de sanctions.

      Thibaut Guilluy, haut-commissaire à l’emploi, a remis le rapport sur lequel il planche depuis huit mois : 274 pages et 99 propositions pour atteindre « le plein-emploi » – soit un taux de chômage à 5 %, contre 7 % actuellement.

      https://justpaste.it/28wl3

      La mission France Travail recommande par ailleurs un système de sanctions « plus progressif », misant « sur une approche globale de la situation du bénéficiaire et un regard pluridisciplinaire, plutôt qu’une approche mécaniste ». En d’autres termes, prendre en compte la situation des personnes avant de les priver de ressources. « Ainsi, conclut le rapport, l’écosystème des obligations/sanctions pourrait sortir de la logique “une faute, une sanction” […] qui consomme beaucoup de temps et laisse peu de place aux échanges en lien avec le retour à l’emploi. » Ce dernier point pourrait séduire le médiateur national de Pôle emploi qui prône, de longue date, une « gradation » des sanctions.

      Si le but de France Travail est la simplicité, sa mise en œuvre paraît à première vue fort complexe. Elle suppose que tous les acteurs cités arrivent à travailler ensemble, et à bâtir des procédures et référentiels communs, ce qui n’est pour l’heure pas garanti, y compris sur le versant technique.

      Les diverses institutions qui devront coordonner leurs actions ne partagent bien souvent pas même un simple logiciel de suivi, et on se souvient du crash du RSI, la sécurité sociale des indépendants, pour ces raisons en 2008.

      La mise en commun devrait donc se faire progressivement pour l’horizon 2027. « Nombre de propositions auront [...] vocation à être expérimentées dès 2023 avec quelques régions volontaires avant de les étendre à tout le territoire national nourries par les apprentissages du terrain », précise tout de même le rapport.

  • Reportage tra i “nuovi” respinti dalla Croazia verso i campi della Bosnia ed Erzegovina

    Da fine marzo la polizia croata ha attivato una “inedita” pratica di rintraccio, detenzione ed espulsione collettiva delle persone in movimento verso la Bosnia, trasportandole in bus alla frontiera o ai centri di detenzione. Il tutto con una parvenza di formalità. Le Ong ne denunciano la palese illegittimità. E la complicità europea

    Con l’inizio del Ramadan, Riaz (nome di fantasia) ha interrotto i tentativi di attraversare il confine verso la Croazia. Si trova nel campo di Lipa, centro di transito ma soprattutto di detenzione nel Nord-Ovest della Bosnia ed Erzegovina, nel Cantone di Una-sana. Si è svegliato tardi, fa freddo e ha una sciarpa nuova con i colori della vecchia bandiera afghana. “Qui hanno riportato tante persone dalla Croazia. Stanno arrivando autobus pieni”, dice.

    Da marzo, infatti, le autorità del cantone bosniaco confermano che i campi di Borici e Lipa stanno ricevendo persone espulse collettivamente dalla Croazia sulla base di accordi bilaterali stipulati proprio con la Bosnia. Rintracciate sul territorio croato, le persone in movimento vengono detenute per poi essere trasportate in autobus al confine e consegnate alla polizia bosniaca (l’ha denunciato il Border violence monitoring network, ripreso in Italia dalla rete RiVolti ai Balcani).

    “Abbiamo parlato con una famiglia curda riammessa nel campo per famiglie di Borici, a Bihać: fermati vicino Slavonski Brod, in Croazia, sono stati portati in un seminterrato e poi dopo qualche giorno in un magazzino dove hanno ricevuto un foglio di espulsione di un anno dall’area economica europea, con la minaccia di 18 mesi di detenzione”, racconta Marta Aranguren, dell’organizzazione No Name Kitchen. Anche Ines dell’associazione locale Kompas 071 descrive dinamiche simili: “Diversi testimoni riferiscono di aver dormito a terra su cartoni per giorni, senza cibo e poca acqua, alcuni minacciati con cani in caso di lamentele”. Esprime la sua preoccupazione: “Improvvisamente è apparso un foglio che legalizza ogni sopruso: uno per far pagare il trasporto della riammissione o le notti in detenzione e uno che giustifica la confisca di telefoni o oggetti personali”.

    Si tratta di riammissioni dalla parvenza solo formale che a differenza dei respingimenti praticati per anni (e ancora oggi) cercano di presentarsi con una base legale. Milena Zajović Milka, attivista dell’organizzazione Are you syrious? e del Border violence monitoring network spiega che “l’ordine di espulsione dall’area economica fa riferimento alla legge sugli stranieri della Croazia, mentre la riammissione si basa su un accordo bilaterale tra due Paesi, che non può prevalere sulla Convenzione di Ginevra e su altre dichiarazioni internazionali”.

    Le criticità sono diverse. Non sempre è stata fornita una copia dei documenti di riammissione nella lingua delle persone espulse, né sarebbero stati presenti traduttori. In più non è chiaro come venga dimostrato che le persone riammesse siano entrate dalla Bosnia ed Erzegovina. “Dalle testimonianze sembra che non abbiano avuto opportunità di chiedere asilo, né di poter far ricorso alla decisione di riammissione, come previsto invece dalla stessa Legge sugli stranieri croata”, spiega Silvia Maraone operatrice di Ipsia Acli, organizzazione che opera dentro il campo di Lipa.

    “In sintesi sono tre le fasi che hanno portato alla nuova pratica delle riammissioni collettive a cui stiamo assistendo da fine marzo”, riprende Zajović Milka. “Dopo anni di respingimenti illegali, a fine del 2021 numerose prove hanno costretto la Croazia a cambiare per la prima volta il suo modus operandi. Poi, l’anno scorso, è stato introdotto un foglio di espulsione di sette giorni, un primo tentativo di regolarizzare l’allontanamento delle persone dal Paese”.

    Non solo la Croazia ma anche la Commissione europea, che ha finanziato e finanzia il Paese per la gestione delle frontiere europee (così come la Bosnia ed Erzegovina, si veda anche il caso di Lipa), si sono trovate nell’imbarazzante situazione di dover rispondere delle illegalità commesse alle frontiere. “Con questo foglio è diventato più facile passare attraverso la Croazia -prosegue Zajović Milka-. Nel frattempo, dall’inizio di quest’anno, centinaia di persone vengono rimpatriate in Croazia per via del regolamento di Dublino, che prevede il ritorno nel primo Paese di ingresso nell’Unione europea”. La Croazia, entrata questo gennaio nell’area Schengen, deve gestire le persone in arrivo nell’Ue, provando a evitare (o a tentare di celare) le violenze per cui è stata sanzionata. D’altra parte, la Bosnia, recentemente promossa a candidata nell’Ue, è disponibile ad accogliere le persone riammesse, non senza tensioni interne.

    Nonostante negli scorsi anni diversi tribunali, in Italia, Austria e Slovenia, si siano pronunciati contro le riammissioni basate su accordi bilaterali, la Commissione europea incoraggia questa pratica. Il Patto sulla migrazione e asilo proposto nel settembre 2020 pone l’enfasi sugli accordi bilaterali tra Paesi per implementare le procedure di ritorno e riammissione in Paesi terzi o di origine. “Stiamo vedendo un rafforzamento di Frontex, la creazione di nuovi centri di detenzione alle frontiere esterne europee e a maggiori finanziamenti per nuovi database volti a facilitare le deportazioni da Bosnia e Serbia, incoraggiate a firmare accordi di ritorno con i Paesi di origine”, riflette Zajović Milka. Il campo di Lipa, finanziato dall’Unione europea, ne è la prova, come aveva pronosticato anche la rete RiVolti ai Balcani.

    Secondo i dati dell’Organizzazione internazionale per le migrazioni, inoltre, nel periodo tra il 6 e il 19 marzo 2023 solo 132 persone sono state registrate a Lipa, su un totale di 1.512 posti.

    Riaz cammina tra i container vuoti con il telefono in mano mentre sistema la sua felpa verde militare. Gli piace perché gli ricorda la sua uniforme da poliziotto che indossava prima del ritorno al potere dei Talebani. Abbandonato da tutti gli eserciti internazionali, non ha avuto altra scelta se non intraprendere il viaggio in forma forzatamente irregolare dall’Afghanistan fino alla Bosnia ed Erzegovina.

    “La maggior parte delle persone deportate se ne va subito. Alcuni sono deportati con gli autobus, altri lasciati nella foresta”, spiega. Usa erroneamente il termine “deportazione” per descrivere pratiche diverse che ai suoi occhi hanno lo stesso effetto. Le recenti riammissioni non hanno infatti fermato i respingimenti illegali. Mentre viaggia verso il confine sloveno Suleyman (nome di fantasia), ragazzo afghano, racconta al telefono l’esperienza di qualche giorno prima. “Sono stato sette giorni in detenzione senza cibo e da bere solo acqua sporca. Ci hanno preso i telefoni, i soldi; hanno bruciato i vestiti e gli zaini”. Lasciato in un bosco sul confine bosniaco è tornato a piedi a Lipa, per ripartire tre giorni dopo verso la Croazia. Il racconto si interrompe, chiude la chiamata. “Ci ha fermato la polizia, non so che cosa ci succederà”, scrive in un messaggio.

    “Tutto sembra lasciato al caso -osserva Zajović Milka-: alcune persone saranno riammesse in Bosnia, altre respinte illegalmente, altre potranno chiedere asilo e altre otterranno il documento di espulsione di sette giorni. Secondo Ines di Kompas 071 l’effetto è chiaro: “La Bosnia è una sorta di purgatorio per le persone in transito, continuamente respinte. È un gioco che va avanti da anni ma ora stanno cercando di rendere questa pratica legale”.

    https://altreconomia.it/reportage-tra-i-nuovi-respinti-dalla-croazia-verso-i-campi-della-bosnia

    #Croatie #refoulements #push-backs #Bosnie #Bosnie-Herzégovine #Balkans #route_des_Balkans #Lipa #réadmissions #accords_de_réadmission

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    ajouté à la liste métaliste sur les accords de réadmission en Europe :
    https://seenthis.net/messages/736091

  • Réforme des retraites : « La décision du Conseil constitutionnel s’impose mais, parce qu’elle est mal fondée et mal motivée en droit, elle ne peut pas clore le contentieux »
    https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2023/04/16/reforme-des-retraites-la-decision-du-conseil-constitutionnel-s-impose-mais-p

    Le constitutionnaliste Dominique Rousseau souligne, dans une tribune, les contradictions de la décision de l’institution de la rue de Montpensier sur la réforme des retraites qui fait selon lui « souffrir la logique juridique ».

    Inutile d’aller chercher dans le mode de nomination des membres du Conseil constitutionnel, dans leur passé politique, dans la mise au jour des intérêts particuliers et connivences des uns et des autres pour qui veut discuter la décision du vendredi 14 avril. Il suffit, simplement, de la lire pour qu’en sorte la critique :

    « § 65. En dernier lieu, la circonstance que certains ministres auraient délivré, lors de leurs interventions à l’Assemblée nationale et dans les médias, des estimations initialement erronées sur le montant des pensions de retraite qui seront versées à certaines catégories d’assurés, est sans incidence sur la procédure d’adoption de la loi déférée dès lors que ces estimations ont pu être débattues. » Enorme !

    « § 69. D’autre part, la circonstance que plusieurs procédures prévues par la Constitution et par les règlements des assemblées aient été utilisées cumulativement pour accélérer l’examen de la loi déférée, n’est pas à elle seule de nature à rendre inconstitutionnel l’ensemble de la procédure législative ayant conduit à l’adoption de cette loi. » Enorme !

    « § 70. En l’espèce, si l’utilisation combinée des procédures mises en œuvre a revêtu un caractère inhabituel, en réponse aux conditions des débats, elle n’a pas eu pour effet de rendre la procédure législative contraire à la Constitution. Par conséquent, la loi déférée a été adoptée selon une procédure conforme à la Constitution. » Enorme !

    « § 11. D’autre part, si les dispositions relatives à la réforme des retraites, qui ne relèvent pas de ce domaine obligatoire, auraient pu figurer dans une loi ordinaire, le choix qui a été fait à l’origine par le Gouvernement de les faire figurer au sein d’une loi de financement rectificative ne méconnaît, en lui-même, aucune exigence constitutionnelle. Il n’appartient pas au Conseil constitutionnel de substituer son appréciation à celle du législateur à cet égard, mais uniquement de s’assurer que ces dispositions se rattachent à l’une des catégories mentionnées à l’article L.O. 111-3-12 du Code de la sécurité sociale. » Enorme !

    Le Conseil constitutionnel reconnaît ainsi que des ministres ont délivré des « estimations erronées » lors des débats parlementaires, que plusieurs procédures ont été utilisées « cumulativement » pour accélérer l’adoption de la loi et que l’utilisation combinée des procédures mises en œuvre a un « caractère inhabituel ».

    Un doute sur le bien-fondé juridique de la décision

    Il était donc logique en droit qu’il en conclue que le principe de clarté et de sincérité des débats parlementaires n’avait pas été respecté. Or, il juge que tous ces défauts ne rendent pas inconstitutionnel l’ensemble de la procédure législative...

    #paywall

    • La bourgeoisie se moque bien de la façade de ses institutions, du moment qu’elles imposent sa loi.

      Car en quoi le changement de numéro de la république pourrait empêcher les grandes fortunes, les capitalistes, d’imposer leur loi sur la société ? En quoi empêcherait-il les plans de licenciements des grandes entreprises et le développement du chômage ? En quoi une 6e République pourra-t-elle empêcher un patron du Medef (les véritables tauliers) de réclamer la baisse du smic, les 45 heures, la retraite à 67 ans, la liquidation des derniers services publics, etc. ?

      En rien.

      Car si les grandes familles bourgeoises font ce qu’elles veulent, cela ne repose pas sur la Constitution mais sur la propriété de leurs capitaux. C’est cela qui décide fondamentalement des politiques de l’État, pas les politiciens qui s’y succèdent.

      La bourgeoisie se moque bien de la façade de ses institutions, du moment qu’elles imposent sa loi. Et encore plus des discours tonitruants des lieutenants de LFI.

    • On peut passer à la 6ème république et continuer la lutte dans les entreprises pour reprendre le pouvoir. L’un n’empêche pas l’autre.@recriweb

      Pourquoi la validation de la réforme par le CC est une bonne nouvelle
      https://blogs.mediapart.fr/rpozzo/blog/150423/pourquoi-la-validation-de-la-reforme-par-le-cc-est-une-bonne-nouvell

      Attendre d’une brochette de 9 hauts fonctionnaires ou anciens ministres 100% Macron compatibles - d’une moyenne d’âge de 72 ans et payés 13 000 € par mois - qu’ils s’opposent à la sacro-sainte volonté présidentielle d’envoyer tout le monde au turbin jusqu’à 64 ans relevait de l’illusion ou de la naïveté dans le meilleur des cas. C’est donc sans plus d’étonnement que la demande de RIP (Référendum d’Initiative Populaire) pour proposer de bloquer l’âge de départ à 62 ans s’est vu rejetée. La raison ? La loi actuelle prévoyant déjà un départ à 62 ans, le CC n’a pas jugé utile un référendum. En plus d’être une insulte envoyée à la figure du peuple français et de son intelligence, c’est une vraie déclaration de guerre.

      Cet horizon qu’offrait la validation par le Conseil Constitutionnel a surtout permis au gouvernement de souffler un peu. Depuis le déclenchement du 49,3 par Elisabeth Borne, on voit clairement le pouvoir claquer des fesses face à la colère de la “foule illégitime”, les manifestations spontanées et quelques feux de poubelles. En bref, le spectre d’un retour d’un Gilets Jaunes 2.0. La date du 14 avril permettait surtout de continuer - ou en tout cas continuer d’essayer - de faire croire que le “texte suivait son cheminement démocratique”, comme si tout était normal, comme si tout allait rentrer dans l’ordre une fois le texte validé par les 9 et que la colère populaire aller s’évaporer devant la sagesse du conseil.

      Pour le gouvernement, cet épisode a constitué une vraie aubaine : Macron dans Pif, Dussopt dans Têtu et Schiappa dans PlayBoy, relance du sujet de l’immigration pour “écraser le sujet des retraites”, sans oublier les grands médias qui ont bien mis l’accent sur le retour de Quatennens dans le groupe LFI, tout est fait pour parler de tout sauf des retraites. De toute façon c’est inutile, attendons l’avis du Conseil Constitutionnel !

      Ce qui est décevant, c’est plutôt la position de l’intersyndicale qui une fois de plus s’est calée sur l’agenda du gouvernement et des institutions. Plutôt que de cultiver la colère de “la base” syndicale et militante engendrée par le 49.3 en décrétant la grève générale et reconductible dès le lendemain, l’intersyndicale ne dévie pas de sa ligne Berger et persiste à jouer les bons élèves. Oui, organiser une grève nationale se prépare. Oui, dès le choix d’un projet de loi de finances, on savait que le 49.3 avait de grandes chances d’être utilisé. Si on reprend les différentes journées de grèves éparpillées de semaine en semaine, elles ont été positionnées avant des échéances institutionnelles :

      16 février : veille du dernier jour de l’examen du texte à l’assemblée

      7 mars : veille du débat de la réforme au Sénat

      15 mars : jour du passage du texte devant la commission mixte parlementaire

      13 avril : veille du passage du texte devant le conseil constitutionnel

      Une stratégie assumée pour “mettre la pression” sur les parlementaires pendant l’examen du texte et avant les différents votes. Une stratégie systématiquement mise en échec : aucune des journées de manifestation n’a eu d’impact sur le “chemin démocratique” du texte. Ni les députés, ni les sénateurs, ni le gouvernement et depuis vendredi ni le conseil des sages n’a flanché. Comme dirait le bodybuilder du boulevard de Grenelle entre deux bouchées de steak tartare, personne n’a craqué.

      Forcément, les déambulations Bastille Nation ne font plus peur à personne. Et ça “la base” l’a vite compris. C’est assez frappant de voir le fossé entre les volontés des manifestants de durcir le mouvement, de mener des blocages, de mettre l’économie à genoux et la ligne de l’intersyndicale qui n’a pas bougé en trois mois de mobilisation. Nous pouvons déjà parler d’échec de l’intersyndicale qui, a trop vouloir respecter le jeu des institutions, n’a pas su capitaliser sur la colère et la détermination des travailleurs et des travailleuses. Parce qu’elle a cru possible de faire entendre raison et faire renoncer un gouvernement à son projet de réforme purement idéologique par la discussion, par la rationalité, l’argumentation. Par le jeu des institutions. Si victoire du camp social il y a, elle sera entièrement due aux mobilisations et initiatives de la base. L’intersyndicale n’a pas su instituer un rapport de force, alors qu’elle disposait de la plus grande mobilisation de travailleurs et de travailleuses depuis 30 ans.

      Voilà pourquoi la validation du texte par le Conseil Constitutionnel est une bonne chose pour le mouvement social. Les syndicats ne vont plus pouvoir “tenir leur base”, expression entendue à longueur d’émissions. Rien que cet élément de langage montre à quel point les bourgeois sont effrayés par le peuple. Un peuple qui pourtant se tient très sage, qui manifeste calmement, qui demande simplement à être écouté. Pourquoi ? Parce que les gens sont raisonnables, persuadés de vivre encore dans une démocratie fonctionnelle. Et qu’ont-ils obtenu en retour ? Mépris et coups de matraques. Les dirigeants syndicaux ne tiennent rien du tout, à part à leur place dans les matinales. Et j’espère que la suite du mouvement le prouvera.

      Parce que maintenant, que reste-t-il pour canaliser les colères ? Pour temporiser ? Plus rien, à part l’abandon de la réforme par Macron himself. C’est maintenant une confrontation directe entre lui et nous. La victoire ne viendra pas d’une rencontre entre Borne et les syndicats. Elle ne viendra pas des députés ou sénateurs d’opposition. Elle viendra par nous, et nous seuls. Désormais, nous allons dicter l’agenda. Nous allons décider des blocages, sabotages et des grèves reconductibles. Nous allons déclencher des manifestations spontanées. Nous allons aller jusqu’au retrait. Nous allons aller le chercher.

      Dehors les Bergers maintenant, place aux loups.

      R.Pozzo

    • Merci @marielle ! Je cite la fin, un bijou :

      Si victoire du camp social il y a, elle sera entièrement due aux mobilisations et initiatives de la base. L’intersyndicale n’a pas su instituer un rapport de force, alors qu’elle disposait de la plus grande mobilisation de travailleurs et de travailleuses depuis 30 ans.

      Voilà pourquoi la validation du texte par le Conseil Constitutionnel est une bonne chose pour le mouvement social. Les syndicats ne vont plus pouvoir “tenir leur base”, expression entendue à longueur d’émissions. Rien que cet élément de langage montre à quel point les bourgeois sont effrayés par le peuple. Un peuple qui pourtant se tient très sage, qui manifeste calmement, qui demande simplement à être écouté. Pourquoi ? Parce que les gens sont raisonnables, persuadés de vivre encore dans une démocratie fonctionnelle. Et qu’ont-ils obtenu en retour ? Mépris et coups de matraques. Les dirigeants syndicaux ne tiennent rien du tout, à part à leur place dans les matinales. Et j’espère que la suite du mouvement le prouvera.
      [...]
      Désormais, nous allons dicter l’agenda. Nous allons décider des blocages, sabotages et des grèves reconductibles. Nous allons déclencher des manifestations spontanées. Nous allons aller jusqu’au retrait. Nous allons aller le chercher.

      Dehors les Bergers, maintenant, place aux loups.

    • @marielle Pourquoi passer à la 6eme République si ça ne sert à rien ?

      Ou pire, contrairement à ce que tu dis, si ça sert à éviter « de faire des grèves coûteuses », « qui grèvent votre budget », ou « des manifestations rendues dangereuses [par le préfet Lallemand] » (sic, Mélenchon) ?

      Mélenchon est un social-démocrate. Il aspire à servir sa classe possédante (et son impérialisme) en maintenant la paix sociale avec des chimères du genre « 6e République ».

      Évitons de tomber dans ces vieux panneaux poussiéreux.

  • Mehr als ein Crash pro Tag: Unfallzahlen von Lieferdienstfahrern in Berlin steigen weiter an

    13.4.2023 von Christian Latz - Immer häufiger verunglücken Fahrer von Lieferdiensten bei der Arbeit. Die Bedingungen werden seit Langem kritisiert.

    Die Anzahl der Unfälle von Lieferdienstfahrern auf Berlins Straßen hat im vergangenen Jahr weiter zugenommen. Insgesamt 596 meldepflichtige Arbeitsunfälle von Fahrern von Lieferfirmen für Speisen und Lebensmittel wie Gorillas oder Flink ... #paywall

    #Betlin #travail #rider #coursiers

  • Enquête vidéo : comment le manifestant antibassine Serge [...] a été gravement blessé à Sainte-Soline

    Les vidéos analysées par « Le Monde » révèlent plusieurs tirs non réglementaires au lance-grenade Cougar, par des gendarmes, le 25 mars à Sainte-Soline. L’un de ces tirs a très probablement touché le manifestant Serge Duteuil-Graziani, toujours dans le coma.

    Attention, certaines images présentées dans cette vidéo peuvent être choquantes.
    https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/video/2023/04/07/enquete-video-comment-le-manifestant-antibassine-serge-duteuil-graziani-a-et

    Des milliers de grenades, des cocktails Molotov, des blessés par centaines : le 25 mars 2023, à Sainte-Soline dans les Deux-Sèvres, une manifestation contre un projet de mégabassine vire à l’affrontement. Au moins deux manifestants, dont Serge Duteuil-Graziani, un militant de 32 ans, sont grièvement blessés. Que s’est-il passé ?

    Les dizaines d’heures de vidéos capturées ce jour-là et les témoignages recueillis par la cellule d’enquête vidéo du Monde montrent que le manifestant, en première ligne des affrontements, a vraisemblablement été touché par un tir non réglementaire de grenade lacrymogène, tiré depuis l’une des zones où étaient positionnés les gendarmes. Les images analysées prouvent aussi que Serge Duteuil-Graziani n’a pas été touché à ce moment-là par les projectiles d’autres manifestants.

    L’enquête du Monde révèle également, grâce à des images inédites de la journaliste de Brut Camille Courcy, un autre tir non réglementaire, sur un autre manifestant. Un tir effectué trop à l’horizontale et réalisé avec le dispositif de propulsion le plus puissant, qui a touché ce manifestant en pleine tête.

    • Communiqué n°2 des parents de Serge
      https://lescamaradesdus.noblogs.org/post/2023/04/04/communique-n2-des-parents-de-serge

      Cela fait maintenant 10 jours que Serge est dans le coma, suite à la grenade qu’il a reçue à Sainte-Soline lors de la manifestation contre les bassines du 25 mars. Son pronostic vital est toujours engagé.

      Nous et sa compagne remercions toutes les personnes (camarades, proches et anonymes) qui ont manifesté leur soutien et leur solidarité envers lui.

      Nous remercions les dizaines de milliers de camarades qui se sont exprimés dans la rue, devant les préfectures et ailleurs, le jeudi 30 mars, contre l’ordre policier installé en France.

      Nous remercions tous ceux et celles qui ont porté assistance aux blessés pendant la manifestation, ou qui ont apporté leur témoignage concernant la répression à Sainte-Soline, en particulier par rapport à Mickaël et à Serge.

      Nous remercions enfin l’équipe médicale qui est à leurs côtés afin de les aider à se battre pour vivre.

      Ce combat pour la vie, Serge le mène avec la même force que celle qu’il met à combattre un ordre social dont la seule finalité est de maintenir la main de fer de la bourgeoisie sur les exploités.

      Soyons solidaires de tout ce que Darmanin veut éradiquer, dissoudre, enfermer, mutiler – du mouvement des retraites aux comités antirépression, des futures ZAD au mouvement des blocages. Le terrorisme et la violence sont chaque jour du côté de l’Etat, pas de celles et ceux qui manifestent leur rejet d’un ordre destructeur.

      Les parents de Serge

      Le 4 avril 2023

      Merci de diffuser le plus largement possible ce communiqué.

    • Communiqué n°1 des parents de Serge
      https://lescamaradesdus.noblogs.org/post/2023/03/30/communique-des-parents-de-serge

      Notre fils Serge est actuellement hospitalisé avec un « pronostic vital engagé », suite à la blessure occasionnée par une grenade GM2L, lors de la manifestation du 25 mars 2023 organisée à Sainte-Soline (79) contre les projets de bassines irrigantes.

      Nous avons porté plainte pour tentative de meurtre, entrave volontaire à l’arrivée des secours ; et pour violation du secret professionnel dans le cadre d’une enquête de police, et détournement d’informations contenues dans un fichier de leur finalité.

      Suite aux différents articles parus dans la presse, dont beaucoup sont inexacts ou mensongers, nous tenons à faire savoir que :

      – Oui, Serge est fiché « S » – comme des milliers de militants dans la France d’aujourd’hui.

      – Oui, Serge a eu des problèmes judiciaires – comme la plupart des gens qui se battent contre l’ordre établi.

      – Oui, Serge a participé à de nombreux rassemblements anticapitalistes – comme des millions de jeunes dans le monde qui pensent qu’une bonne révolution ne serait pas de trop, et comme les millions de travailleurs en lutte actuellement contre la réforme des retraites en France.

      Nous considérons qu’il ne s’agit là nullement d’actes délictueux qui saliraient notre fils, mais que ces actes sont au contraire tout à son honneur.

      Les parents de Serge
      Le mercredi 29 mars 2023

    • Le Monde a balancé le patronyme de Serge (ce n’aurait pas été les cas pour un policier) et publie des images sans rien demander à la famille. C’est pas smart du tout.

      Par ailleurs la démonstration tient la route : tir tendu d’une grenade lacrymogène depuis un lanceur cougar celui du blindé Centaure, projectile entier arrivé en pleine tête de ce militant. (Le Monde montre un autre exemple d’un tel tir à Sainte-Soline).
      Arriver à reconstituer une scène ainsi, n’est a contrario pas rassurant pour les manifestants.

      Edit ils avaient été précédé par Ration (un peu moins étayé/bien construit dans mon souvenir
      #vidéo

    • > Arriver à reconstituer une scène ainsi, n’est a contrario pas rassurant pour les manifestants.

      Deux interprétations possibles de cette phrase : 1. on voit comment fonctionnent les flics, et on a peur d’aller manifester ; 2. on voit comment tout est filmé sous tous les angles toutes les secondes, et peut être retenu à charge ?

      (Les deux se tiennent, et d’ailleurs ne s’opposent pas, mais je me demande laquelle tu avais en tête.)

    • Communiqué n° 3 des parents de Serge

      https://lescamaradesdus.noblogs.org/post/2023/04/12/communique-des-parents-de-serge-n3

      La violence a été du côté des forces de l’ordre, qui ont visé l’ensemble des manifestants.
      Les 200 blessés de Sainte-Soline – dont notre fils Serge et Mickaël, les plus gravement atteints – ne sont pas le résultat d’une « mauvaise gestion de l’ordre », d’erreurs de tel ou tel, ou simplement le fruit du hasard. Le responsable de ces 200 blessés, c’est un État qui a pour seul objectif, dans la période actuelle, de mettre à genoux toute contestation sociale afin de mieux gérer l’exploitation du travail dans les années à venir, face à la crise que connaît le capitalisme pour se perpétuer.

    • Communiqué des parents de Serge (4)

      Un mois après le tir de grenade qui a gravement blessé à la tête notre fils
      Serge, le 25 mars 2023, lors de la manifestation contre les mégabassines de
      Sainte-Soline, l’incertitude subsiste concernant son avenir.

      Selon les critères médicaux purement cliniques, Serge est sorti du coma.
      Cela signifie qu’il entrouvre les yeux, mais nullement qu’il est réveillé.

      Les soins qui lui ont été dispensés depuis son arrivée à l’hôpital ont visé
      à juguler diverses lésions et infections. Celles-ci ont pour origine le tir
      de grenade dont il a été victime, mais aussi les conditions dans lesquelles
      les premiers secours lui ont été dispensés sur les lieux mêmes de la
      manifestation – les forces de l’ordre interdisant aux pompiers et aux
      ambulances d’accéder aux personnes blessées pour les prendre en charge.
      Ces soins ont contribué à ce que l’état de Serge, qui reste d’une « extrême
      fragilité », ne se dégrade pas davantage. Cela permet d’espérer son retour
      à la conscience, mais ce n’est pas encore le cas.

      À ce jour, il est impossible d’affirmer que Serge va recouvrer ses esprits
      et l’usage de son corps (ses membres et ses sens, sa capacité de respirer
      et de parler) ou d’évaluer les séquelles de sa blessure. Et une rechute
      infectieuse demeure à craindre.

      Son pronostic vital reste donc engagé.C’est pourquoi nous dénonçons toute
      utilisation qui pourrait être faite de la sortie de son coma : Serge est
      malheureusement fort loin d’être tiré d’affaire. Prétendre le contraire
      serait un pur mensonge.

      Les parents de Serge, le 26 avril 2023

      Merci de diffuser ce communiqué le plus largement possible.

    • https://lescamaradesdus.noblogs.org/post/2023/06/17/communique-du-s

      Communiqué du S

      Salut tout le monde,

      Je m’appelle Serge et j’ai été gravement blessé, comme beaucoup d’autres, à la manifestation contre la mégabassine de Sainte Soline du 25 mars 2023. J’ai été atteint à la tête par une grenade, probablement tiré en tendu par un gendarme équipé d’un lanceur de grenade cougar. J’ai subi un grave traumatisme crânien qui m’a mis en situation d’urgence absolue, situation aggravée par le blocage de ma prise en charge par les secours durant la manifestation. Après un mois de coma artificiel et six semaines en réanimation, j’ai été transféré dans un service de neurochirurgie, puis en centre de rééducation. A l’heure actuelle, je ressens d’énormes progrès dans ma faculté à bouger, manger et tout simplement échanger et réfléchir. Le chemin va être extrêmement long mais je suis déterminé à tout donner, à me battre pour récupérer ce qui me constituait, tant physiquement que mentalement. Je le fais évidemment pour moi, mais aussi parce que je pense que refuser d’abdiquer, refuser d’être écrasé par la machine répressive est une nécessité politique, à l’heure où les Etats font le pari de la terreur et de notre passivité.

  • Pesticides dans l’eau : le ministre de l’Agriculture veut noyer une décision de l’Anses – Libération
    https://www.liberation.fr/environnement/pollution/pesticides-dans-leau-le-ministre-de-lagriculture-veut-noyer-une-decision-

    « Je ne serai pas le ministre qui abandonnera des décisions stratégiques pour notre souveraineté alimentaire à la seule appréciation d’une agence. » Le ministre en question est celui de l’Agriculture, Marc Fesneau. L’agence, celle de la sécurité sanitaire (#Anses), qui a décidé d’interdire un #pesticide suspecté d’être cancérigène et retrouvé en trop grande quantité dans l’eau. L’homme politique lui a demandé de reconsidérer son avis, et l’a annoncé devant un auditoire particulièrement réceptif au congrès du plus gros syndicat agricole français, la FNSEA.

    #paywall #empoisonnement_de_masse

  • Azote aux Pays-Bas : une crise sentinelle - AOC media
    https://aoc.media/analyse/2023/04/04/azote-aux-pays-bas-une-crise-sentinelle

    Alors que Le Monde publie une série d’articles sur les méfaits de l’agriculture industrielle et sa défense par des moyens violents, cet article sur les Pays-Bas est très original et intéressant. Face à une pollution devenue inacceptable au regard des normes européennes, le gouvernement a été obligé de prendre une loi qui met en oeuvre une réduction massive de la production animale intensive dans ce pays - suscitant en retour une réaction politique forte de la part des agriculteurs, qui font face à des injonctions à un changement de modèle d’exploitation ou des expropriations.

    Qui plus est, cette transformation est due à l’action d’un collectif écologiste qui a su viser au bon endroit au bon moment. Rendons-nous compte : elle ne découle ni d’un sabotage armé ni d’une révolution mais d’une simple action en justice qui suffit à opérer la bascule économique, écologique et politique d’un pays entier – voire davantage : « “La principale différence par rapport aux mesures précédentes est une réduction du nombre de têtes de bétail”, a déclaré le Dr Helen Harwatt[…]. En 2019, elle a dirigé un groupe de scientifiques appelant à prendre des mesures pour assurer le déclin du bétail. “Nous avons tendance à ne voir que des approches technologiques pour réduire l’azote du côté de la production ou à réduire les rejets dans l’environnement, plutôt que de réduire la production agricole elle-même. Tous les regards seront tournés vers les Pays-Bas pour tirer les leçons de cette transition.”[4] »

    La crise néerlandaise de l’azote constitue bien un laboratoire mondial de la fermeture/du renoncement qui appelle d’autres réformes à sa suite. Une telle transformation aurait pu être jugée impossible en vertu de son ampleur : jamais le capitalisme ne laisserait faire ; jamais l’industrie n’abandonnerait ses profits ; en outre, le droit n’est-il pas l’instrument du pouvoir ? Évidemment, tout ceci n’est pas faux mais ces réflexes offusquent de réels leviers stratégiques.

  • À Lyon, une consultation pour les « drogués sur ordonnance »
    https://www.mediacites.fr/reportage/lyon/2023/03/28/opioides-tranquillisants-a-lyon-une-consultation-pour-les-drogues-sur-ord

    Vingt-trois mille euros de dettes cumulées auprès de ses proches pour se payer ses doses, une hospitalisation de sevrage, un manque ressenti au quotidien… Coralie* connaît la même descente aux enfers qu’une junkie, sauf que son produit se trouve en pharmacie. « Je suis droguée sur ordonnance depuis vingt ans », témoigne-t-elle, l’air éteint, de lourdes valises noires sous les yeux.

    La quinquagénaire est devenue accro au fentanyl, un puissant antidouleur. Comme le tramadol, il fait partie de la famille des opioïdes, responsables en vingt ans de 500 000 morts par overdose aux États-Unis. En 2015, 10 millions de Français·es, soit 17 % de la population, s’étaient vu prescrire ces puissants antalgiques, selon l’Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament. À Coralie, la médecin généraliste a prescrit du fentanyl sans l’avertir du risque de dépendance, sous sa forme qui rend le plus accro, un applicateur buccal qui en fait une sorte de sucette.

    Le produit se diffuse directement dans la gencive pour atténuer dans la foulée le supplice, mais induit aussi un effet de

    #paywall

  • La Macronie et la tentation de l’extrême banalisation
    https://www.politis.fr/articles/2023/04/la-macronie-et-la-tentation-de-lextreme-banalisation-rn

    En diabolisant systématiquement les gauches, Emmanuel Macron, le gouvernement et la majorité présidentielle en viennent à acter la normalisation du Rassemblement national. Un pari dangereux.

    C’est une stratégie complètement dingue : « Ce qui nous arrangerait, c’est une dissolution et un score suffisamment haut pour le RN, pour qu’on puisse mettre Le Pen à Matignon. Qu’on montre qu’elle est incompétente, comme ça on la décrédibilise pour 2027. Et elle devient inopérante. Donc plus de problème. »

    Cette idée folle, délivrée sous couvert d’anonymat, vient d’un membre à la tête d’un bureau départemental en région parisienne de Renaissance et, par ailleurs, conseiller national du parti présidentiel. Il ne fait pas partie du petit état-major rassemblé autour d’Emmanuel Macron, mais quand même.

    Cette courte séance de politique-fiction peut paraître anecdotique.Elle ne l’est pas. Imaginer qu’installer l’extrême droite au gouvernement permettrait de trouver une voie de sortie potable pour Emmanuel Macron et Renaissance dans la perspective de 2027, est-ce un dérapage isolé ? C’est tout le contraire. La petite réflexion est à l’image d’un élément de langage désormais répandu au sein de la majorité : le danger, c’est tantôt La France insoumise, tantôt la Nupes, toujours Jean-Luc Mélenchon. Mais jamais Marine Le Pen.

    • « La macronie banalise le néofascisme et lui montre les outils de la 5ème permettant de gouverner par la terrorisation, la mutilation, les tentatives de meurtre et l’antiparlementarisme.
      Certes. »

      « Mais cela signifie que le macronisme est DEJA une forme hybride entre néolibéralisme managérial et néofascisme. Sa forme adaptée à l’électorat de cadres incultes formés en business school et de la vieille bourgeoisie barbarisée. »

      https://twitter.com/Pr_Logos/status/1642449063965609984?cxt=HHwWgMC-tZeuk8stAAAA

    • Le fil d’origine est sur Mastodon
      https://framapiaf.org/@Pr_Logos@piaille.fr/110128736451757628

      Il publie sur Mastodon et effectue un transfert automatique vers Twitter d’après ce qu’il dit. Et ça lui va bien, car ça lui évite les galères de tomber sur tous les tarés du net qui répondent sur Twitter.

      1/ Pour quelle raison Macron a-t’il demandé à son ministre issu de l’extrême-droite antisémite, royaliste, climato-négationniste et intégriste de se livrer à son « 6 février 1934 », reprenant tout les éléments de langage néofascistes ?

      2/ Il s’agit d’un coup de sonde, avec force sondages, avant de le nommer premier ministre. Comment vont réagir les derniers Straus-Khanien à une rhétorique anti-parlementaire, néofasciste, appelant au meurtre des écologistes ?

      3/ La droite conservatrice est en morceau. Le quart va se rallier vers sa gauche, à un centre libéral. Le quart est déjà rallié à Le Pen. Reste la moitié de bourgeois barbarisés que Darmalin peut accréter… ou pas.

      4/ Si la Le Pen arrive au pouvoir, elle n’aura pas de cadres de gouvernement (mais une police déjà à ses ordres). Elle aura donc besoin des cadres LR pour ne pas provoquer un effondrement instantané de l’économie.

      5/ Les dernier LR qui n’ont pas choisi hésitent : se rallier à Macron au risque d’être éjectés dans quelques mois et de perdre la perspective du gouvernement avec la Le Pen…

      Alors Macron tente un gouvernement Le Pen avant l’heure.

      6/ Il le tente virtuellement, en laissant Darmalin dire qu’il ne reconnait plus les parlementaires de gauche comme parlementaires, dire que les militants de la de la vie et du climat sont des « terroristes » à liquider.

      7/ Si les sondages disent que les strauskhaniens adhèrent au discours néofasciste, par peur, et que la bourgeoisie barbarisée Zemmour-Figaro Vox-Valeurs Actuelles est enthousiaste pour Darmalin, Macron le nommera.

      8/ Et puis l’Etat d’urgence. Les meurtres qu’on « assume ». La répression. La chasse aux migrants, aux militants anti-autoritaires, aux journalistes, aux intellectuels et aux universitaires. Les canaris des régimes policiers.

      9/ Si les libéraux sont effarés de la vitesse d’émergence d’un régime néofasciste, si LR préfère se préserver pour Le Pen Macron fera « papa les gros yeux » qui est un génie mais qui n’est entouré que de débiles incompétents.

      10/ Voilà l’enjeu du numéro néofasciste…

      Sonder l’opinion sur un gouvernement « de sursaut » pétainiste : Darmalin, Rétailleau, Zemmour, Dati, Cazeneuve, Valls, Ciotti.

      PS : je sais qu’on ne doit pas utiliser l’Histoire, etc. En mobilisant 34, je veux juste dire que nous avons encore la possibilité de 1936 entre nos mains. Notre mouvement est fort, uni, déterminé et joyeux.

    • Darmanin dans le « JDD » : le ministre n’a plus de limites (#paywall)
      https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/politique/020423/darmanin-dans-le-jdd-le-ministre-n-plus-de-limites

      « Terrorisme intellectuel de l’extrême gauche », création d’une « cellule anti-ZAD », « manipulations de l’information », pulsion obsessionnelle contre « la violence, les casseurs et l’ultragauche » : dans une nouvelle interview accordée dimanche à l’hebdomadaire, le ministre de l’intérieur continue de tenir des propos agressifs contre toutes celles et ceux qui ne sont pas d’accord avec lui.

    • Si on n’appelle pas ça jeter un bidon d’essence sur la barbecue, je ne sais pas trop comment on pourrait qualifier ça. La Macronie a mis le feu à la société et ça les amuse. On dirait qu’ils n’attendent que des actions violentes pour nous imposer (au choix) un état d’urgence, un couvre-feu, la suspension de toutes nos libertés fondamentales, (dont celle de la presse notamment), etc.
      Je pense qu’il ne faut pas tomber dans ce genre de piège. Patience ... Et courage aussi. Continuons à organiser la #résistance.

    • G.D. devait être nommé 1er ministre si le gouvernement était contraint d’en passer par le 49.3 pour faire adopter la réforme contre les retraites. il joue sa partition après que Borne ait décidé de repousser l’adoption de la loi immigration. Faux brav, vrai préfet, la police (Nunez sera lundi à TMTP sur conseil du ministère) nous parle.

      la dissolution de du collectif rennais DC (et non pas DefCo comme on l’écrit dans les média(Rennes) était annoncé la semaine dernière avec la publication d’un dossier dont le centre de gravité si si ) était D.C, du Mensuel de Rennes (lié au Télégramme de Brest)
      https://twitter.com/MuArF/status/1641828343904456705
      (Logos, c’est aussi aussi Hindenburg revisité Veme Rep., il me semble)

    • je refuse de céder au terrorisme intellectuel et à une question posée à l’A.N. sur des VSS et un viol de 5 manifestantes à Nantes je répondrais par un hommage aux policiers « blessés », et rien d’autre.

      un policier déshabille un manifestant à Lyon dans la rue


      des milliers de personnes prêtes à tuer , E.M. racontant Sainte Soline et ses gendarmes à Sainte Savine be water le lac

      le bon grain de l’ivraie. ct’affaire d’ultra gauche parlementaire doit forcer ceux qui ne l’ont pas fait (EELV, très provisoirement, LFI-JLM, avec brio) à condamner « la violence des manifestants », afin d’isoler grève, blocage (en ces jours qui précèdent la journée intersyndicale du 6), sabotage

      tapis ! sur le #goban

    • Attentat ? Prise d’otage ? Destructions ?

      –> agression des opposants politiques, destructions du matériel des journalistes, gav illégitimes.

      « l’autorité réclamée par les Français est là »

      même pas en rêve !

      « La complaisance très inquiétante des mouvements politiques qui ont leurs entrées à l’Assemblée nationale »,

      La complaisance du gouvernement pour l’extrême droite.

      La cellule #Démeter rime bien avec #FRDeter !

    • La nouvelle droite cristallise autour de Darmanin

      Ce n’est pas pour rien que Gérald Darmanin se sera avancé si incroyablement dans l’affirmation d’un profil bolsonariste en France cette quinzaine-ci. Au point d’effacer toutes les autres figures de la droite. Et même celle du Président, qui, avec son interview décisive dans Pif Gadget, s’est englouti dans le dérisoire du petit bain médiatique où pataugent déjà Dussopt et Schiappa. Ses outrances, ses violences, ses abus : tout participe à la construction de ce qui est désormais la ligne d’horizon de la nouvelle droite en France. La preuve est donnée en Ariège.

      En battant la député sortante en Ariège, le « parti de l’ordre » obtient son premier succès. LR, RN, Macronistes tous en rangs serrés derrière un fantôme du PS de l’ancien temps contre une députée sortante qu’ils ont insultée et méprisée, sans trêve ni pause, accusée des pires idioties dans le florilège des plus révulsifs éléments de langage de la nouvelle droite extrême. « Tout sauf la NUPES » ! « Tout sauf les insoumis ». Tel est le dénominateur commun de cette nouvelle droite globale qui se cristallise. Du RN aux macronistes, un pont est lancé dont des individus comme Darmanin sont une des figures transversales possibles les plus évidentes. Comme l’ont été ailleurs Bolsonaro ou Trump. Et en Europe comme l’ont été toutes les combines politiciennes du même bois qui ont donné la Melloni au pouvoir en Italie et sa préfiguration en Suède après la Hongrie et la Pologne et avant d’autres bien sûr.

      Stefano Palombarini avait correctement compris ce que les élections en France disaient depuis quelques temps. Il avait vu les trois blocs égaux de la gauche, de la droite variée et de l’extrême droite. Il prévoyait la fusion progressive des droites. Cette analyse était aussi la mienne au sortir de la séquence législative dont nous avions gagné le premier tour et perdu le second, battus par une coalition de toutes les droites dans chaque circonscription. Nous comptions un quatrième bloc, celui des abstentionnistes. Je pensais qu’il était l’enjeu. Palombarini s’est dit surpris que tout aille si vite entre les droites. À l’Assemblée, les Insoumis en avaient la preuve cent fois donnée au fil des votes et des élections aux postes internes de l’Assemblée.

      Telle est désormais la pente, partout et en toute circonstances. C’est celle de la destruction du mix fondateur de la société française depuis la Libération. Le point d’équilibre mille fois disputé et mouvant entre société libérale et société de droits sociaux avait été déjà sévèrement abîmé par la gestion de l’aile Hollande du socialisme français. Il est, depuis lors, profondément saccagé dans ses fondamentaux par un autre homme comme Macron directement issu du même milieu politique et directement lié à l’oligarchie du pays qui entre temps s’est emparée de tous les moyens de communication. Le Code du travail, les retraites, les libertés publiques, tout a été atteint. Quelques apprentis sorciers qui ont déclenché tout cela depuis la « gauche traditionnelle » devraient s’interroger. Ils ne le feront pas. Englués dans leurs délires et obsessions islamophobes, leur nouvelle idéologie les coupe de la pratique du réel. Cette « gauche-là » en France n’a rien vu venir et a laissé faire, encouragé et cajolé le pire, drapée dans la bonne conscience.

      Pour autant, si l’on considère la série des évènements dans leur continuité depuis la fin des législatives, nous continuons à tenir le bout qui nous place aux avant-postes de l’esprit du pays. La vue d’ensemble au fil des élections partielles est : nous avons gagné un siège, gardé un et perdu un autre. Si injuste que soit la défaite en Ariège, survenant pour la deuxième fois dans le même département avec la même alliance, elle ne dépeint pas toute notre réalité. Loin de là, parce que les conditions sociales et les problèmes posés au pays sont loin d’y être résumés. Côté des droites, les macronistes ont perdu un siège, repris un mais ont été lourdement éliminés du deuxième tour partout ailleurs. En Ariège, ils n’ont pu gagner autrement qu’en se rangeant derrière le parti de Cazeneuve et Hollande. Identité confuse, rangée à droite sous les oripeaux de la gauche d’avant-hier. Le Pen a perdu un siège, a été écrasée dans le Pas-de-Calais et éliminée du deuxième tour dans l’Ariège. Ce sont des signes de recul de l’influence électorale du RN. Ils restent pourtant niés par les sondeurs qui continuent à « sonder » avec leur vieux thermomètre d’autrefois où les catégories politiques et les liens entre milieu social et choix politique restent fixés sur les compteurs d’il y a vingt ans. L’aile d’extrême droite de la macronie incarnée par Gérald Darmanin peut rêver sérieusement de prendre le contrôle de cet espace de la droite globale, celle du « parti de l’ordre ». En modérant ses propos, son apparence et ses manières de faire, Le Pen se rend soluble dans ce nouvel ensemble où Darmanin l’a déjà déclarée « trop molle ».

      Décrire un tableau, c’est s’astreindre à le comprendre. Le comprendre, c’est se donner les moyens d’agir sur son évolution. Comme toujours, l’analyse du résultat d’une élection est un enjeu idéologique. Elle détermine le pilotage de la suite de l’action. Nous savons à présent, de source électorale sûre, que la « gauche » de Delga, Cazeneuve et compagnie, ce n’est pas la gauche. C’est assez cher payé. Toute bienveillance sera dès lors mal placée. Mais la cause que nous portons s’est accommodée d’autres difficultés bien plus considérables.

      Ce que cette élection partielle ne peut faire oublier, c’est une leçon de bon sens : rien de pire que de confondre la tête et la queue d’un flux. En Ariège, on voit les bases de la résistance d’un vieux monde sans avenir qui achève son agonie dans la combinazione la plus méprisable. La tête des événements, c’est la mobilisation sociale contre la retraite à 64 ans, l’entrée en lice de la jeunesse du pays dans l’opposition frontale au monde du libéralisme. C’est là que tout se joue.


      https://melenchon.fr/2023/04/02/la-nouvelle-droite-cristallise-autour-de-darmanin

    • « Partout, les éditorialistes nous bassinent avec le prétendu sérieux du RN à l’Assemblée nationale… mais dans les faits, ça donne quoi ? Je vous propose qu’on lise ensemble leur recours au Conseil constitutionnel contre la réforme des retraites, qui est un summum d’incompétence ⤵️ »
      https://twitter.com/malopedia/status/1647641570974285825?cxt=HHwWgoC2se_RzN0tAAAA

      Je me suis retenu de faire ce fil avant la décision du Conseil constitutionnel, parce que je voulais pas qu’on m’accuse de tirer sur des arguments (aussi mauvais soient-ils) contre la réforme des retraites. Mais maintenant, je peux m’en donner à cœur joie donc on va pas se priver.

      Le recours du RN peut être trouvé ici : https://conseil-constitutionnel.fr/sites/default/files/2023-03/2023849dc_saisinedep_1.pdf

      Il développe 7 moyens, c’est-à-dire 7 angles d’attaque. 5 d’entre eux sont, pour être poli, aux fraises...

  • Quand une note des renseignements fait l’éloge des Soulèvements de la Terre, Gaspard d’Allens
    https://reporterre.net/Quand-une-note-des-renseignements-fait-l-eloge-des-Soulevements-de-la-Te

    Depuis plusieurs mois, les autorités ont dans le collimateur Les Soulèvements de la Terre — l’un des collectifs organisateurs de la mobilisation à Sainte-Soline (Deux-Sèvres) contre les mégabassines. Reporterre s’est procuré une note des renseignements généraux datée de novembre 2022 qui révèle le long travail d’investigation mené par les services de police sur le mouvement. À l’époque, Le Parisien l’avait déjà citée dans un article.

    En filigrane, la police reconnaît « l’ingéniosité », « l’intelligence » et « la communication parfaitement maîtrisée » des activistes qui ont su rallier autour d’eux intellectuels, associations et syndicats pour créer un véritable mouvement social de l’eau et devenir « un acteur majeur de la contestation écologique radicale ».

    Les renseignements voient Les Soulèvements de la Terre comme une véritable menace. Ce qui expliquerait d’ailleurs le discours du ministre de l’Intérieur Gérald Darmanin, qui réclame leur dissolution.

    Les Soulèvements de la Terre : révélations sur le fer de lance de l’écologie radicale en France, 20 décembre 2022
    https://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/les-soulevements-de-la-terre-revelations-sur-le-fer-de-lance-de-lecologie

    C’était le 11 décembre en fin d’après-midi, jour de l’arbre de Noël de la société Lafarge à Bouc-Bel-Air (Bouches-du-Rhône). Vêtus de combinaisons blanches et masqués, plus d’une centaine d’activistes se sont introduits en force dans l’usine du cimentier

    #paywall..

    #renseignements #police #écologie #Soulèvements_de_la_Terre #transversalité #écosabotage #désarmement

  • #Enquête sur « l’#islamo-gauchisme » à l’#université : histoire d’une vraie fausse annonce

    Un document du ministère de l’enseignement supérieur dont « Le Monde » a eu copie révèle que l’ancienne ministre Frédérique Vidal, contrairement à ses dires, n’a jamais diligenté d’enquête en février 2021.

    Cette fois, les masques sont tombés : malgré ses affirmations, l’ancienne ministre de l’enseignement supérieur Frédérique Vidal n’a jamais demandé d’enquête portant sur « l’ensemble des courants de recherche » menés dans les universités en lien avec « l’islamo-gauchisme ».

    Le 14 février 2021, sur le plateau de CNews, elle avait dénoncé un phénomène qui « #gangrène la société dans son ensemble » auquel « l’université n’est pas imperméable ». Deux jours plus tard, à l’Assemblée nationale, la ministre confirmait la mise en place d’« un bilan de l’ensemble des recherches » en vue de « distinguer ce qui relève de la #recherche_académique et ce qui relève du #militantisme et de l’#opinion ».

    L’initiative – dont l’Elysée et Matignon s’étaient désolidarisés très vite – avait suscité la « stupeur » de la Conférence des présidents d’université qui avaient dénoncé les « représentations caricaturales » et « arguties de café du commerce » de Mme Vidal. Censé être mandaté pour mener cette enquête, le centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) avait lui insisté sur le fait que le terme d’« islamo-gauchisme » « ne correspond[ait] à aucune réalité scientifique », regrettant une « polémique emblématique d’une instrumentalisation de la science ».

    (#paywall)

    https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2023/03/29/enquete-sur-l-islamo-gauchisme-a-l-universite-histoire-d-une-vraie-fausse-an
    #Vidal #Frédérique_Vidal #ESR #enseignement_supérieur #France

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    L’historique de cette affaire :
    https://seenthis.net/messages/902062

    • « Déclaration d’intention »

      Ces propos de la ministre – dans la lignée de ceux de son collègue Jean-Michel Blanquer, alors ministre de l’éducation nationale, qui, dès octobre 2020, avait dénoncé les « ravages à l’université » de l’« islamo-gauchisme » – relevaient finalement du registre exclusif de la communication et de la fausse nouvelle. C’est ce que révèle le ministère de l’enseignement supérieur lui-même, dans un document daté du 17 mars dont Le Monde a eu copie.
      Il s’agit d’un mémoire en défense adressé au tribunal administratif de Paris, à qui le Conseil d’Etat avait transmis, il y a bientôt deux ans, la requête de six enseignants-chercheurs : les sociologues Nacira Guénif, Caroline Ibos, Gaël Pasquier, la géographe Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary, l’historienne Fanny Gallot et le politiste Fabien Jobard, en avril 2021, avaient déposé un recours contre Mme Vidal, l’accusant d’« abus de pouvoir ».

      Dans ce document, et en vue de démontrer, à son sens, l’irrecevabilité de la démarche des requérants, la direction des affaires juridiques du ministère explique tout simplement que « les propos de la ministre, qui nécessitaient d’être concrétisés par une décision ultérieure adressée à un service afin de le saisir de la réalisation d’une enquête, n’ont été suivis d’aucune demande adressée en ce sens au Centre national de la recherche scientifique, ni à tout autre établissement sous tutelle du ministère de l’enseignement supérieur et de la recherche, regroupement d’organismes de recherche ou service d’inspection ».

      Le ministère en conclut que « dans ces conditions, la demande d’enquête se réduisant à une déclaration d’intention et n’ayant pas été formalisée, et par suite aucune enquête n’ayant été diligentée ni aucun rapport d’enquête rédigé, les conclusions à fin d’annulation de la “décision” du 14 février 2021 ne sont pas dirigées contre un acte faisant grief et sont, par suite, irrecevables ». Contactée mercredi 29 mars, Frédérique Vidal n’a pas souhaité apporter de commentaires.

      « Totale irresponsabilité politique »

      Pour William Bourdon et Vincent Brengarth, avocats des six enseignants-chercheurs, « l’aveu obtenu du gouvernement quant à l’absence d’enquête révèle une totale irresponsabilité politique et juridique ». Ils rappellent combien cette annonce a entretenu « un climat d’intimidation au sein du monde universitaire et dissuadé des études ». « Elle a aussi légitimité intentionnellement le terme d’“islamo-gauchisme” et amplifié les discours de haine », soulignent-ils.
      Si, formellement, l’affaire est close, l’onde de choc qui a traversé le monde universitaire est toujours présente. Dans une tribune au Monde, mercredi 29 mars, les requérants auxquels s’est adjoint le sociologue Eric Fassin, affirment que « plus que jamais, les femmes et les minorités sexuelles et raciales doivent montrer patte blanche » depuis lors. Car « c’est sur elles que pèsent au premier chef le soupçon idéologique et donc l’injonction de neutralité ».

      En résultent sur le terrain universitaire « des orientations de la recherche abandonnées, des vocations découragées, des thèses qui ne verront pas le jour, des articles et des livres qui ne seront pas publiés, des financements pas attribués, des postes pas créés », détaillent-ils.
      Ce dénouement révèle une « parole politique irresponsable ». S’il a fallu un recours devant le Conseil d’Etat et deux ans d’attente pour que le ministère de l’enseignement supérieur fournisse cette réponse – sans la rendre publique –, « c’est qu’il s’agit d’une politique d’intimidation visant à décourager l’exercice des savoirs critiques en encourageant leurs adversaires, dans et hors du monde académique », estiment les auteurs.

      Lire aussi :
      « Islamo-gauchisme » à l’université : la ministre Frédérique Vidal accusée d’abus de pouvoir devant le Conseil d’Etat
      « L’enquête sur “l’islamo-gauchisme” à l’université n’aura pas lieu et n’avait pas lieu d’être »

    • conclusions :
      – objectif atteint par Vidal, et effets durables
      – confirmation que cette technique particulière de terrorisme intellectuel fonctionne à merveille à la fac, et présente peu de risque judiciaires
      – erreur de cible pour les plaignants ; fallait pas attaquer en abus de pouvoir

      Vidal est elle attaquable pour fake news, avec la nouvelle loi ?
      Des mesures correctives ont-elle été requises auprès de la nouvelle ministre ?

  • Latin America in the US-China Space Race - Geopolitical Futures
    https://geopoliticalfutures.com/latin-america-in-the-us-china-space-race

    Partnerships and strategic locations are in high demand.

    By Allison Fedirka - March 22, 2023
    Next week, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and his science and technology minister will be in China to negotiate the construction of a new satellite. They want the satellite for climate observation and to monitor deforestation in the Amazon. Brazil and China have more than two decades of history working together on satellites, […]

    #paywall, mais le sujet est chaud et se suffit presque à lui-même…

    comme le dit le tweet qui pointe vers l’article…

    As the US-China rivalry heats up, Washington is sensitive to any Latin American space collaborations involving Beijing.

  • Quand une équipe des BRAV-M dérape au cours d’une interpellation : « Je peux te dire qu’on en a cassé, des coudes et des gueules »
    https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2023/03/24/je-peux-te-dire-qu-on-en-a-casse-des-coudes-et-des-gueules-quand-la-brav-m-d

    La séquence dure plus de vingt minutes, enregistrée discrètement par un membre d’un groupe de sept personnes interpellées, lundi 20 mars, à l’angle des rues des Minimes et du Béarn, dans le 3e arrondissement de Paris. Entre commentaires à caractère sexuel, gifles, menaces et vantardises, ce document sonore, que Le Monde a pu authentifier, jette une lumière crue sur le comportement de fonctionnaires en contradiction totale avec les règles déontologiques autant qu’avec la loi.

    #paywall