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Deportation: a policy that leads to despair

category france / belgium / luxemburg | migration / racism | press release author Thursday October 23, 2008 19:14author by Alternative Libertaire - ALauthor email international at alternativelibertaire dot org Report this post to the editors

Josiane Nardi died after setting herself on fire, in front of the press, on October 18 in front of the prison in Le Mans, as a protest against the decision to deport her partner, currently held in the prison, to Armenia. This desperate gesture comes as a response to government brutality founded on the "quota policy", which continues to claim more expulsions and permanently criminalises immigration. [Français]


Deportation: a policy that leads to despair


Josiane Nardi died after setting herself on fire, in front of the press, on October 18 in front of the prison in Le Mans, as a protest against the decision to deport her partner, currently held in the prison, to Armenia. This desperate gesture comes as a response to government brutality founded on the "quota policy", which continues to claim more expulsions and permanently criminalises immigration. Between this self-immolation, the recent death of a person wanting to escape a raid by jumping out of a window, the various suicides in detention centres and the hundreds of migrants who have died on Europe's borders, responsibility for all this lies squarely with the powers.

Who benefits from anti-immigrant laws, regulations and agreements?

  • The bosses, who use them to introduce increasing casualization of labour and lower wages.
  • The ruling class, which divides the workers into Europeans and non-Europeans in order to rule more easily.
The response to this policy must be solidarity among all workers, legal or otherwise.

For this reason, we support:

  • free circulation and residence both in Europe and on an international level;
  • struggles to regularize all sans-papiers;
  • the closure and destruction of all detention centres;
  • the suppression of the Department of Raids and Deportations*;
  • the egalitarian and self-managed redistribution of wealth on a global level, requiring the abolition of capitalism.

Alternative Libertaire

22 October 2008

Translation by FdCA-International relations office


* Translator note: An ironic nickname for the Department of Immigration.

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