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QSome 250 people once again demonstrated on Saturday against the relocation of a reception center for asylum seekers (Cada) to Saint-Brévin (Loire-Atlantique), where a counter-demonstration had preceded them, noted a correspondent. from AFP.
Protesters gathered in front of City Hall. To cries of “In Callac, we won, in Saint-Brévin, we’re going to win” or “Saint-Brévin aux Brévinois”, the speeches followed one another to denounce the construction of a new Cada near a school and, more broadly, “uncontrolled immigration”.
“Now that there is no more room in big and small towns, we are spreading the migrants in the villages”, denounced Benoît Rouze, dissident militant of the Reconquest party, who came from Blois. “We must stop the totally uncontrolled immigration which will destroy our country”, affirmed Bernard Germain. Candidate for Reconquest in the Côtes d’Armor in the last legislative elections, the latter was the spokesperson for the committee hostile to the project, abandoned last January, to welcome people who have obtained refugee status in Callac (Côtes d’Armor). .
As in Callac, far-right organizations such as Action française, Le Rassemblement vendéen, Riposte laïque or La Cocarde were present.
Previously, between noon and 2 p.m., 300 demonstrators according to the police had denounced this anti-Cada rally in the city center. “The far right wants to make believe that there is a problem in Saint-Brévin while the reception and support of migrants is going very well”, commented the LFI deputy for Saint-Nazaire, Matthias Tavel.
Clashes erupted in the early afternoon between anti-fascist demonstrators and the police who prevented them from accessing the anti-Cada rally.
A scuffle also opposed activists from both sides in the streets of Saint-Brévin. An anti-Cada demonstrator was slightly injured according to the police and the car of a “young patriot” was set on fire.
At the end of the morning, in a calm environment, around 70 people had responded to the call of the collective of appalled and united Brévinois (CBAS), near the school where the future Cada will be built. Symbolically, a first stone was laid in front of the construction site of the future building and a “big party” announced for the start of the school year.
04/30/2023 07:09:44 – Saint-Brévin-les-Pins (France) (AFP) – © 2023 AFP
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