{"id":652,"date":"2015-05-05T15:26:29","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T13:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/network23.org\/twentyonemiles\/?p=652"},"modified":"2015-05-05T16:01:42","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T14:01:42","slug":"calais-recording-reveals-gendarmes-sending-away-migrants-who-wanted-to-file-complaints-about-police-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/network23.org\/twentyonemiles\/2015\/05\/05\/calais-recording-reveals-gendarmes-sending-away-migrants-who-wanted-to-file-complaints-about-police-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Calais: recording reveals gendarmes sending away migrants who wanted to file complaints about police violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>French newspaper<em> Lib\u00e9ration<\/em> was recently given a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liberation.fr\/politiques\/2015\/05\/03\/quand-on-a-la-situation-qu-ont-les-migrants-faut-tout-accepter_1287088\" target=\"_blank\">recording showing how the gendarmes snubbed migrants who had come to file a complaint against police violence in Calais<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On 24th June 2014,Cl\u00e9mence Gautier, lawyer at the Calaisien migrant support association <em>Plateforme de services aux migrants, <\/em>went to gendarmes in Norrent-Fontes (Pas-de-Calais) with Eritrean migrants to file a complaint against the police and a lorry driver for assault and inflicting injuries. She recorded several minutes of dialogue and gave the recording to <em>Lib\u00e9ration.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Cl\u00e9mence had been confident of being treated well by the police, but was seriously disappointed. The gendarmes dissuaded the migrants from filing a complaint and alluded to taking the migrants to a detention centre.\u00a0 One gendarme said that it was &#8220;excusable&#8221; that the lorry driver had hit the migrants.<\/p>\n<p>In the days following the failed attempt to file a complaint, the gendarmes stepped up their presence in Norrent-Fontes, where the migrants were sleeping next to the motorway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French newspaper Lib\u00e9ration was recently given a recording showing how the gendarmes snubbed migrants who had come to file a complaint against police violence in Calais. On 24th June 2014,Cl\u00e9mence Gautier, lawyer at the Calaisien migrant support association Plateforme de services aux migrants, went to gendarmes in Norrent-Fontes (Pas-de-Calais) with Eritrean migrants to file a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-france"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/network23.org\/twentyonemiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/network23.org\/twentyonemiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/network23.org\/twentyonemiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/network23.org\/twentyonemiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/network23.org\/twentyonemiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/network23.org\/twentyonemiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/network23.org\/twentyonemiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/network23.org\/twentyonemiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/network23.org\/twentyonemiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}