Ten years ago, an admissions crisis began on the beaches of Dunkirk, and in particular at Grande-Synthe. Namely a hundred exiles who left conflict areas, Syria and Kurds, especially Afghanistan, crossing seas and land to reach England.
The inertia and fear of the elected officials were already paralyzed, there was already a strong obligation to do nothing, waiting for the bus from the prefecture, which would take them further to Perpignan, those who “nothing to do at the beach”. Saves time… Before the return of the same population. A day without end.
This episode, which could certainly cause concern, is in the process of being removed. Political memory has errors, there is also deliberate forgetfulness.
The mayor of Grande-Synthe, Damien Carême, alone at the time, took the plunge. Very wide. Both for questions about politics and about morality. That welcoming, instead of waiting, in the humiliating Basroch camp, the plight of the exiles, protected only by tents, was already determined.
Together with MSF, the main funding provider, and other associations, began an unusual adventure, namely by creating, in March 2015, an accommodation on the site of the linière, like humanitarian camps being built all over the world.
Weeks before the first round of presidential elections, the region would end up in ashes, a victim of overpopulation while the “jungle of Calais” had been dismantled months earlier. By deleting the site
