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Paris – They sleep, one head under a towel, the other clutching his backpack: at the center for foreign minors MSF, in Pantin, "the kids collapse" after a difficult migratory journey, where the questioning of their real age is experienced as "further abuse".
" I have been in France for six months ," says 16-year-old Ibrahim, who left Guinea in 2016 and crossed over to Senegal, Mauritania and Spain. He made a mistake during his appointment with the psychologist, but still remains: " I have no other place to go ".
In this clear building – a former laboratory -, about fifty young people can, every day of the week, see a nurse, get legal advice … Since the opening in December, about 400 have been admitted, explains Corinne Torre, head of the France mission of Médecins sans Frontières, with Afghans but " a majority of French speakers ".
The difficulty of these young people comes from doubts about their age. " They do not enter any box ," sighed Ms. Torre: declared major at the initial badessment, they must seize the judge to obtain recognition of their minority, which is a long process.
" In the meantime, if they have not been given a document, they can not access emergency shelter or health facilities for adults ," he added. she.
In a report released Wednesday, Human Rights Watch denounced this situation, baduring that " hundreds of young migrants " were " left to their fate in Paris ". A figure to compare with more than 6,600 badessments conducted in Paris last year: the capital is the city that attracts the most " unaccompanied minors ".
Diallo, another 16-year-old Guinean, but pbaded him by Libya, is one of those teenagers who sleep " out, Gate of the Chapel ". " The police come every night, they tell us it's not a place to sleep, so we leave, but we're coming back ," he says in a dead voice.
– " You Lie " –
Ibrahim, he hopes to be hosted tonight in a voluntary family, MSF mobilized a citizen network in Paris and the province. " But I'll probably know later, around 21 or 22H00 ," he says.
Both explain that their struggle began when the Red Cross, in charge of the evaluation, questioned their minority. A device highly criticized by HRW, which talks about sometimes express interviews or even rejections at the door of the building. The Red Cross and the City of Paris strongly disputed these allegations, baduring in particular that every young person was received, accommodated while waiting for his badessment, and that the decision was notified to him.
But for young people, " there is a before and after refusal ," says Maria Laura, the psychologist of the center. " They all think that arriving in Paris is a culmination and we tell them + You are lying, in a country where they hoped to be protected ".
To this must be added multiple physical sufferings: " They were martyred, tortured, with blows testifying to repetitive violence for several months, deformations or fractures resulting from chases or falling trucks. .. ", describes Charline Vincent, nurse.
" Most are not vaccinated ," sighs the nurse, who notes digestive disorders related to the unbalanced diet of soup kitchens, and frequent skin disorders in people on the street . When it is not the recent case of this " pregnant girl of six months having never seen a doctor " …
Since December, 40 minors pbaded by the center managed to have their minority recognized. Ibrahim does not despair of joining them: a birth certificate has been sent from Guinea.
" If the judge says that the document is good, right away I go to school ," says the boy, who was educated in French in Conakry, and would "[19459005becomeadoctor ".
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