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The Marseille administrative court on Monday ordered the Bouches-du-Rhône department to update the list of unaccompanied minors present on its territory and to provide them with assistance and shelter within 15 days.
The court had been seized in summary by several associations including Médecins du monde and La Cimade. They reproached the departmental council for “to take refuge behind a material impossibility or a lack of means“in order not to fulfill their obligation, thus causing “a serious violation of the right to life and to the protection of health” enshrined in the Constitution.
This referral followed a mobilization of unaccompanied minors on March 2 in front of the town hall of Marseille, who demanded their shelter in a context of health emergency linked to the Covid-19 crisis.
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