The retired instructor, a tireless campaigner for the rights of asylum seekers, was a distinguished determine within the Calais charity group. He died on July 11, aged 72.
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“Life goes on… SALAM goes on… The work of informing [and] denouncing goes on…” With these unhappy phrases, the SALAM charity started its every day report on the dismantling of migrant camps in Calais, northern France, on Friday, July 12. Every single day, the authors ship an electronic mail itemizing the variety of tents seized by police alongside the northern French coast, and the variety of folks displaced.
Earlier that day, the charity needed to announce the loss of life of its president, Jean-Claude Lenoir, an area determine dedicated to serving to migrants. Aged 72, he collapsed on the wheel of a van on July 11. His automobile fell right into a canal in Calais. “Jean-Claude fell into the water together with his van and drowned. Most likely a coronary heart assault. Too early to say something aside from our sorrow,” wrote Claire Millot, SALAM’s basic secretary.
On July 12, a tribute was organized close to the positioning the place the van crashed. Campaigners linked it to the tribute paid to the 4 individuals who had drowned the earlier evening off Boulogne-sur-Mer, trying to succeed in the UK in a makeshift inflatable boat.
Lenoir was one of many founding members of SALAM, identified for organizing meal distributions within the camps of Calais and Grande-Synthe, and which now has some 300 members. “It was initially a motion of residents who did not need to depart folks outdoors. On the time of the Sangatte camp, Jean-Claude was cooking rice on a gasoline tripod in his storage,” recalled Millot.
Humanism and fraternity
In 2004, Lenoir was convicted by the Boulogne-sur-Mer courtroom of “supporting the residence of undocumented individuals” for having housed some migrants in his residence after the closure of the Sangatte camp on the finish of 2002. Nonetheless, he was exempted from receiving a sentence, because the courtroom discovered that he and one other activist on trial had served a humanitarian trigger. Lenoir mentioned on the time: “As of tomorrow, we’ll be out within the area full time, and we’ll proceed to take action in full view of everybody.”
Though he had spent much less time within the camps lately, Lenoir used to often share his “rants” by electronic mail with all of the affiliation’s members. In opposition to the backdrop of the Rassemblement Nationwide’s lead within the European elections on June 9, he just lately wrote: “Hypocrisy. We have by no means stopped warning! Harassment across the clock, demolition of each final shelter, racial profiling. In reality, sowing the seeds of intolerance of others, rigorously cultivating this unhappy tradition. It is hypocrisy to fake to be astonished, to behave as if revolted. We have by no means stopped warning! We’ll proceed to assert that our Republic is about fraternity!”
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