EVENT INFORMATION

10
March
2017

Politis reports Calais restrictions on food aid and showers

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📅 10 March 2017 📍 France

Politis reported that Calais’s mayor had issued an order barring associations from distributing food, after the municipality had also obstructed the installation of showers for migrants. Associations and aid groups challenged the restrictions through legal and public advocacy. The dispute illustrates how routine acts of care—food, water, hygiene—became politicized at the border, and how humanitarian language coexisted with pressure to make displaced people leave.

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People in this event

migrants

aid workers

mayor Natacha Bouchart

Organizations in this Event

Secours Catholique

migrant-support associations

Calais municipality