Décision de la cour suprême russe : les témoins de Jehovah interdits. Semblant de déjà vu.
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▻http://www.economist.com/news/europe/21721395-russian-orthodox-church-does-not-competition-russia-bans-jehovah
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Décision de la cour suprême russe : les témoins de Jehovah interdits. Semblant de déjà vu.
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▻http://www.economist.com/news/europe/21721395-russian-orthodox-church-does-not-competition-russia-bans-jehovah
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Eastern Europe’s workers are emigrating, but its pensioners are staying
The EU’s newest members face economic decline unless they woo back workers, or recruit immigrants of their own
▻http://www.economist.com/news/europe/21714999-eus-newest-members-face-economic-decline-unless-they-woo-back-workers-or-recruit-immigrants?fsrc=scn/fb/te/bl/ed/theoldcountrieseasterneuropesworkersareemigratingbutitspensionersarestayi
#Europe_de_l'est #travail #migrations #émigration
En Russie, la guerre contre les femmes est déclarée
Why Russia is about to decriminalise wife-beating | The Economist
▻http://www.economist.com/news/europe/21715726-it-fits-traditional-values-lawmakers-say-why-russia-about-decrim
SHOULD it be a crime for a husband to hit his wife? In many countries this question no longer needs discussing. But not in Russia, where the Duma (parliament) voted this week to decriminalise domestic violence against family members unless it is a repeat offence or causes serious medical damage. The change is part of a state-sponsored turn to traditionalism during Vladimir Putin’s third presidential term. It has exposed deep fault lines. Many Russians now embrace the liberal notion of individual rights, but others are moving in the opposite direction.
Russian propaganda is state-of-the-art again | The Economist
▻http://www.economist.com/news/europe/21711538-1930s-moscow-beacon-international-movement-russian-propaganda
FOR much of post-Soviet history Russia was seen as an outlier whose politics would inevitably move towards those of the West. After the Brexit vote and the election of Donald Trump in America, it appears the opposite is taking place: the style of politics practised by Vladimir Putin’s regime is working its way westward.
From the Mediterranean to the Pacific, Mr Putin is hailed as an example by nationalists, populists and dictators. “My favourite hero is Putin,” said Rodrigo Duterte, the brutal president of the Philippines. Mr Trump called Mr Putin “a leader far more than our president.” In Italy Beppe Grillo’s Five Star Movement took Mr Putin’s side against the West, and the anti-immigrant Northern League, led by Matteo Salvini, has enthused about his Russia. “No clandestine immigrants, no squeegee merchants and no Roma encampments [in Moscow],” tweeted Mr Salvini during a visit in 2014.
Un maire se félicite de la chasse aux migrants
En Hongrie, Laszlo Toroczkai est fier des milices privées arrêtant les réfugiés qui traversent sa commune pour rejoindre l’ouest de l’Europe.
*Pig-head propaganda: Hungary’s war on refugees*
“What crime did we commit for 40 police officers to surround us? It’s like they think we are terrorists or criminals,” 48-year old Khatoon, a Yazidi woman from Iraq who had several family members who were murdered or taken hostage by the jihadist group Isis, told me.
▻https://euobserver.com/opinion/134762
#porc #cochon #islamophobie
En #Bulgarie, cette milice secrète à l’accent russe qui #traque les migrants
La région à cheval entre la Bulgarie et la Turquie est une pièce maîtresse dans le dispositif de sécurité européen. C’est aussi ici qu’opèrent ces milices de volontaires qui font la chasse aux migrants. Reportage au sein de la plus importante – et la plus secrète – d’entre elles.
Il a fallu montrer patte blanche, argumenter, négocier chaque détail. L’#Union_Vassil_Levski - #BNO_Shipka, organisation paramilitaire et patriotique, n’aime pas les curieux. « Nous sommes les seuls et véritables gardiens de la frontière de l’Europe face à la menace islamiste », nous avait annoncé #Vladimir_Roussev à Varna, principale ville au nord de la mer Noire, où se trouve son QG. Plus connu sous le nom de guerre de « Walter », ce petit homme râblé à la moustache fournie, dirige d’une main de fer l’organisation regroupant essentiellement d’anciens officiers des forces de sécurité du pays et qui affiche, selon lui, pas moins de 800 membres. Lui-même ex-colonel de l’armée de terre, Vladimir a du mal à se défaire du jargon militaire lorsqu’il nous expose ses activités : il y est question de « front » et de « base arrière », de « logistique » et de « chaîne de commandement ». Nous comprenons que la véritable action ne se passe pas à Varna, mais beaucoup plus au sud.
« #Patrouilleurs volontaires »
Cap donc sur Bourgas à l’autre bout de la côte, où après plusieurs jours d’attente nous allons enfin recevoir le feu vert de « Walter » pour rejoindre ses miliciens déployés à la frontière turque. Les instructions arrivent la veille, codées : il y est question d’une « randonnée dans la nature ». Le rendez-vous est fixé à Marinka, petit village à la lisière de la Strandja, cette montagne sauvage à cheval entre la Bulgarie et la Turquie. De nouveau l’attente, puis le doute.
Ces redoutables « patrouilleurs volontaires » qui inondent la Toile de leurs exploits, existent-ils vraiment ? C’est alors que deux voitures, comme sorties de nulle part, nous prennent en sandwich. Un grand gaillard aux cheveux retenus par un catogan en surgit pour nous inviter à les suivre. Nous prenons la direction de Malko Tarnovo, le principal poste-frontière de la région, avant de bifurquer vers la mer, direction le village de Iasna Poliana, nommé d’après la dernière résidence du grand classique russe Tolstoï.
Le hameau, situé à quelque 30 km de la frontière, est connu pour servir de halte, ou de point de rassemblement, des migrants – ou du moins ceux qui ont réussi à échapper aux checkpoints mis en place par la police. La toponymie du lieu, renvoyant à l’auteur de Guerre et Paix, vient s’ajouter à un autre élément troublant : l’homme qui nous a adressé la parole avait indiscutablement l’accent russe, un accent reconnaissable parmi mille dans ce pays connu pour avoir été le plus fidèle allié de l’Union soviétique.
Equipement militaire
Nous quittons la route goudronnée pour nous engager sur une piste qui nous mène encore plus à l’intérieur des terres. Devant une cabane utilisée par les chasseurs, les deux véhicules déversent une demi-douzaine de jeunes avant de repartir. En quelques minutes, ces derniers tronquent leur jean, t-shirt et baskets contre un équipement militaire complet : treillis, bottes, gourde, sac à dos, radio. A cela s’ajoutent de longs couteaux accrochés à leur ceinture, une bombe lacrymogène et un pistolet à air comprimé. Et des cagoules, noires, qu’ils vont enfiler « pour des raisons de sécurité ».
« Nous ne portons rien d’illégal », précise l’homme à l’accent russe qui est à la fois leur instructeur et leur chef de groupe. Il nous présente les membres de la patrouille par leur nom de code : « Boxeur », « Coq », « Glissière de sécurité », « Ingénieur » et « Astika » (une marque de bière locale) pour la seule femme du groupe. Lui, c’est « Chamane ». Après avoir fait une série de pompes, les membres de la patrouille sont désormais prêts. Ils sont invités à ne pas se montrer « agressifs » envers les migrants mais sont autorisés à « agir selon les circonstances ». « Nous sommes en opération. Ceci n’est pas un entraînement », rappelle « Chamane ».
« Devenir quasi invisible »
Les cinq jeunes s’enfoncent dans la forêt, guidés par leur commandant. Ils longent des sentiers, grimpent des collines, enjambent des ravins sans quitter des yeux la forêt : des canettes de Red Bull, des boîtes de cigarettes, des conserves, des bouteilles d’eau ou encore un vêtement abandonné sont des indices qu’ils sont sur la bonne piste. Au passage, « Chamane » leur enseigne comment placer un poste d’observation, traverser à découvert, ramper et se fondre dans la nature. « Le but c’est de voir l’autre avant d’être vu. Devenir quasi invisible, pour avoir l’avantage sur l’ennemi », explique-t-il.
Vu l’absence de migrants à cette heure de la journée, le groupe va se faire la main sur des bergers, avant d’approcher au plus près une étable, toujours en « mode furtif ». Régulièrement, « Chamane » immobilise le groupe avant d’envoyer l’un de ses membres inspecter les environs pendant que les autres font le guet. « Je leur enseigne les techniques de base des Spetsnaz, les forces spéciales russes, en milieu hostile : renseignement, diversion, dissimulation », reconnaît-il.
En fait, dans cette patrouille tout est russe : la terminologie, les techniques utilisées et même les cartes – issues de l’état-major soviétique – parce que « celles de l’OTAN sont nulles », s’amuse le mystérieux commandant. Et lui, qui est-il ? D’une prudence de Sioux, le Russe livre très peu de détails sur lui-même : on comprendra qu’il est un vétéran du Caucase du Nord, qu’il a fait la deuxième guerre de Tchétchénie (1999-2000) et qu’il est bien officier, diplômé d’une école militaire. Il explique sa présence ici par ses origines bessarabes, cette ancienne région aujourd’hui partagée entre l’Ukraine et la Moldavie, foyer de nombreux bulgares ethniques qui ont bénéficié d’un « droit au retour » dans leur patrie historique. « La Russie n’a rien à voir dans cette histoire, pour le meilleur comme pour le pire d’ailleurs », tient-il à préciser. « C’est à nous, ici, de faire le boulot. Pratiquement à mains nues. »
« Effet de surprise »
On l’aura compris, pour « Chamane » et ses camarades l’ennemi ce sont bien les migrants. « Il s’agit à 90% des combattants étrangers, avec une hiérarchie et de réflexes de guerriers », croient-ils savoir en soulignant qu’ils ne croisent ici, dans cette région présentée comme une bifurcation de la fameuse « route balkanique », que des groupes de jeunes Afghans. Tous des hommes, avec dans leur sillage des Pakistanais, des Irakiens et, parfois, des Iraniens. Ils affirment en appréhender plusieurs par semaine, qu’ils remettent aux gardes-frontières. « On évalue d’abord la taille, puis la dangerosité du groupe avant de surgir du bois. Le plus souvent l’effet de surprise est tel que les intrus se laissent faire », poursuit « Chamane ».
« Nous ne sommes pas des chasseurs de migrants, mais des citoyens responsables ! », met en garde depuis Varna Vladimir Roussev. A Sofia, plusieurs voix se sont élevées contre les activités de son organisation, certains demandant au contre-espionnage bulgare d’enquêter sur la présence de ces instructeurs russes qu’ils ont comparé aux « petits hommes verts » de Vladimir Poutine, les commandos sans signes distinctifs envoyés en Ukraine. En juin dernier, le Comité Helsinki pour la défense des droits de l’homme a demandé au Parquet d’interdire les activités de l’organisation paramilitaire, jugées anticonstitutionnelles et dangereuses. « Ces idiots ne savent pas qu’ils sont, eux aussi, sur la liste des hommes à abattre des combattants de Daech [Etat islamique]. Juste après les notables juifs », dit encore « Walter » en insistant lourdement sur le dernier point. Là aussi, on l’aura compris.
▻https://www.letemps.ch/monde/bulgarie-cette-milice-secrete-laccent-russe-traque-migrants
#Bulgarie #milices #asile #migrations #réfugiés #anti-réfugiés #xénophobie #racisme
"Cacciatori di migranti" in Bulgaria, stasera il reportage del TG1 insieme all’Osservatorio
Ai confini esterni dell’Unione europea, alla frontiera tra Bulgaria e Turchia, gruppi di autoproclamanti “difensori dell’Europa” pattugliano i boschi alla ricerca di migranti che tentano di entrare nel paese, per poi proseguire lungo la “rotta balcanica” verso i paesi ricchi dell’UE.
▻http://www.balcanicaucaso.org/aree/Bulgaria/Cacciatori-di-migranti-in-Bulgaria-stasera-il-reportage-del-TG1-insi
Bulgaria, ronde anti-immigranti sul confine con la Turchia
Difendere Bulgaria ed UE dall’“invasione” dei migranti: in Bulgaria vari gruppi di auto-proclamati “patrioti” pattugliano il confine con la Turchia e il governo lascia fare
▻http://www.balcanicaucaso.org/Media/Multimedia/Bulgaria-ronde-anti-immigranti-sul-confine-con-la-Turchia
Existe aussi en anglais :
▻http://www.balcanicaucaso.org/eng/Media/Multimedia/Bulgaria-anti-immigrant-patrols-at-the-border-with-Turkey
Bulgarie : #Petar_Nizamov, le « chasseur de réfugiés », a été acquitté
Petar Nizamov, l’un des chefs des « milices anti-migrants », était assigné à résidence depuis la diffusion en avril 2016 d’une vidéo où on le voyait arrêter manu militari trois Afghans. La justice bulgare vient de le blanchir de toutes les accusations qui portaient contre lui.
Bulgarian Vigilantes Patrol Turkey Border to Keep Migrants Out
Figures in camouflage and ski masks gather at a fishing lodge. Many are armed with long knives, bayonets and hatchets.
The 35 men and women are on the hunt in Strandzha Massif, a forested mountain range on Bulgaria’s border with Turkey. Migrants trying to cross into Europe are their prey.
▻http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/europes-border-crisis/bulgarian-vigilantes-patrol-turkey-border-keep-migrants-out-n723481
Ceux qui disent « halte » aux migrants
La frontière turco-bulgare, aux marches de l’Europe, est la nouvelle route utilisée par les passeurs de migrants. En Bulgarie, pour stopper cet afflux de clandestins, une unité de volontaires, encadrée par des vétérans de l’armée, s’organise pour faire le travail de la police.
Sofia est dépassé par l’ardeur des « chasseurs de migrants »
Après avoir encouragé à demi-mot l’aide fournie par des volontaires à la frontière turque, les autorités bulgares semblent vouloir sévir contre ces initiatives qui risquent de dégénérer
▻https://www.letemps.ch/monde/2016/04/14/sofia-depasse-ardeur-chasseurs-migrants
Des migrants ligotés et arrêtés par des habitants
Des civils ont arrêté des réfugiés dans une forêt à la frontière bulgaro-turque. Une action « illégale » rappellent les autorités.
▻http://www.lematin.ch/monde/Des-migrants-ligotes-et-arretes-par-des-habitants-/story/25672749
Bulgaria tries to restrain its vigilante “migrant hunters”
Rights groups demand that Bulgaria’s government bring illegal border-policing groups under control
Dutch #Pegida leader and expelled German deputy hunt migrants on Bulgaria border
The former frontwoman of Germany’s Pegida anti-Muslim movement and a leader of its Dutch offshoot have travelled to Bulgaria to hunt down migrants attempting to cross the border from Turkey, it has emerged.
Human rights experts: Unchecked atmosphere of anti-migrant discourse results in abuses
They call them “migrant hunters” or “citizen protection” organizations. They are volunteers, whose self-appointed job is to patrol Bulgaria’s border with Turkey, seeking out people trying to cross. - See more at: ►http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/MigrationXenophobiaRacisminBulgaria.aspx?platform=hootsuite#sthash.8B8AouOl.d
►http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/MigrationXenophobiaRacisminBulgaria.aspx?platform=hootsuite
#hongrie #asile #migrations #réfugiés #xénophobie
Al confine bulgaro-turco parte la caccia al migrante: “Qui non entra nessuno”
Gruppi autorganizzati si muovono nei boschi. Le tv li seguono e li esaltano come eroi
Bulgarian Vigilantes Patrol Turkey Border to Keep Migrants Out
Figures in camouflage and ski masks gather at a fishing lodge. Many are armed with long knives, bayonets and hatchets.
The 35 men and women are on the hunt in Strandzha Massif, a forested mountain range on Bulgaria’s border with Turkey. Migrants trying to cross into Europe are their prey.
Patches on their irregular uniforms — a coat of arms bearing a snarling wolf’s head framed by Cyrillic text — proclaim them to be members of the Bulgarian National Movement Shipka, abbreviated in Bulgarian as “BNO Shipka.”
Members of the paramilitary organization form into ranks as their leader, Vladimir Rusev, speaks. A former colonel who says he fought in Chechnya as a volunteer alongside Russians, Rusev declares his support for a man they admire: President Donald Trump.
“The CIA is trying to undermine Trump,” said Rusev, a compact 58-year-old with a neat mustache and short-cropped hair. “They want to destroy him. We offer our support to him.”
Trump’s hard-line stance on immigration and vocal criticism of Islam finds an appreciative audience here.
Most BNO Shipka members are friendly, courteous and open. The organization’s website projects a different message: slick videos replete with firearms and military training, and declarations that Europe must be defended against Islam.
Rusev claims they have as many as 50,000 members, although NBC News was unable to verify this number.
“I’m not nationalistic or anything like that. I’m just a patriot,” said Nikolai Ivanov, a 34-year-old who was one of the group’s founding members in 2014.
“Many of these immigrants are not just some guys who are trying to run away from war. They are from age 17 to 35, with good physiques and training,” Ivanov added. “It’s not a problem that they are Muslims. The problem is it’s a different civilization. They don’t think like us, they have a totally different view about life, about everything.”
While the group has been criticized by human rights advocates, it isn’t hard to find people who agree with Ivanov’s views in Bulgaria. The head of the country’s border police praised a nationalist volunteer group for intercepting migrants in April.
Rust Belt of the Balkans
Bulgaria occupies a place at the seams. Looking east, this Eastern Orthodox crossroads shares a traditional alliance with Russia. To the south is Turkey, once home to a Muslim empire that for centuries dominated the region. The European Union, with liberal values and a promise of wealth, lies to the west.
Since the end of the Cold War, Bulgaria has firmly embraced the West — joining NATO in 2004 and the EU in 2007. But the rapid rise in living standards for its seven million citizens stalled during the financial crisis of 2007-2008. Now, average annual income remains the lowest in the EU, even when measured by purchasing power.
In the Soviet era, heavy industry and chemical production dominated the economy. Now, abandoned factories litter a landscape replete with decaying smokestacks and depopulated villages.
On top of this, Bulgaria has become a major overland route as Europe grapples with a migration crisis due to its borders with Turkey, Greece, Macedonia, Serbia and Romania.
According to Eurostat, 20,165 people applied for asylum in Bulgaria in 2015, the most recent year for which firm numbers were available. This was a fraction of the around 1.2 million who claimed asylum in the EU that year, more than three quarters of whom were from majority Muslim countries.
Although only a handful of Europe-bound migrants have settled in Bulgaria, concern about the newcomers resonates in a country that was dominated for centuries by the Ottoman Turks.
Ivanov believes the refugee crisis was part of a plan in which ISIS militants would slip into the country and attack. Then, neighboring Turkey would deploy troops to Bulgaria under the auspices of the NATO alliance, he said, effectively reclaiming a portion of the lost Ottoman Empire.
Conspiracy theories like this abound among BNO Shipka members, some of whom make a point of speaking Russian. Their affinity for Moscow is perhaps understandable in the context of Bulgaria’s unhappy history with its Muslim-majority neighbor. Shipka, after all, refers to a battle in which a Russo-Bulgarian force defeated the Ottoman Turks in 1877.
Bulgaria’s weak economy and status outside the borderless Schengen area means most migrants aim for Greece as a gateway to more prosperous countries further west.
So the “refugee situation here is not that serious,” said Krassimir Kanev, a founder of the human rights group Bulgarian Helsinki Committee. "Bulgaria is a transit country, the refugees want to move to [other] EU countries.”
However, Bulgaria “registered 31,281 new arrivals in 2015, which represents 89.3 percent of all land arrivals in the EU for the same year,” according to a report by Radoslav Stamenkov, the head of the Bulgaria office at the International Organization for Migration. The “migration shock” that began in 2013 created social tensions “in a country that had a very limited experience of receiving migrants,” Stamenkov wrote.
Kanev sees BNO Shipka and similar groups as xenophobic nationalists at best, or at worst, violent and racist extremists. In October 2015, an Afghan migrant was shot and killed when he tried to cross into Bulgaria. In November, protests by locals over rumors of disease forced the temporary closure of the country’s largest refugee camp and led to riots.
“There are ongoing criminal proceedings against a number of these groups,” Kanev said. Bulgarian vigilantes have detained migrants and tied them up, sometimes beating and humiliating them before forcing them back across the border, he added.
Asked for its position on vigilante groups, Bulgaria’s Interior Ministry did not respond.
Jokes and Cigarettes
Back in the forests of the Strandzha Massif, BNO Shipka is going out on patrol. In bitter cold and with snow on the ground, this isn’t the high season for refugees crossing from Turkey. Some still try.
After a series of short speeches by leaders, members gear up and head toward the border. But the presence of a large group of people in ski masks and military regalia dashing from cover to cover in view of the highway attracts the attention of local authorities.
Two border police officers, accompanied by several soldiers armed with assault rifles, drive up in four-by-fours and ask for an explanation. They seem less concerned than confused. Most BNO Shipka members wear Bulgarian military fatigues from their own service so the groups merge, trading jokes and cigarettes. Only the slung rifles indicate who is an active soldier and who is a vigilante.
The authorities seem unsure what to do, particularly with members of the media present.
A BNO Shipka squad leader informs journalists that police are letting them continue, but the training mission has been completed and the team will return to the fishing lodge. As the group marches back, police follow them having called in reinforcements.
No one is detained or questioned further, but police return the following day.
Undeterred, BNO Shipka members record a video message to Trump. They put on snow camouflage oversuits and sneak around police stationed at the road leading to the lodge.
Asked if he is afraid Bulgaria is losing its identity, founding member Ivanov nods. "If we don’t do something soon,” he said. “It’s not just Bulgaria, but all of Europe.”
BNO Shipka didn’t catch any migrants this time. Still, they intend to keep looking.
1944 all over again | The Economist
▻http://www.economist.com/news/europe/21699474-eurovision-win-provides-symbolic-victory-over-russian-repression-1944-all-over-again?force=scn/tw/te/pe/ed/1944alloveragain
ON May 14th Crimea’s indigenous Tatars sat glued to their screens, watching as Jamala, a Ukrainian singer of Tatar descent, won the Eurovision song contest. Jamala’s song “1944” commemorated Stalin’s brutal deportation of the entire Crimean Tatar population. For Russia’s government, the song was an infuriating breach of the contest’s ban on politics. For Tatars, it was a gesture of defiance. Most Tatars refuse to accept Russia’s annexation of the peninsula in 2014. As a result, they have been singled out for punishment.
So long, farewell? | The Economist
▻http://www.economist.com/news/europe/21699478-far-right-lost-austria-it-growing-force-europe-so-long-farewell
“THERE are two possibilities,” predicted Norbert Hofer, who had just become the standard-bearer of Europe’s hard right. It was May 22nd, voting in Austria’s presidential run-off had ceased and the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) candidate seemed to be ahead. “The first: I become president. The second: I become president, and Heinz-Christian Strache becomes chancellor!” In the beer garden in Vienna’s Prater amusement park, his supporters roared, drowning out shrieks from the adjacent roller coaster. Mr Strache, the FPÖ’s leader, grinned.
What happens after refugees arrive in Greece
The Economist visits the only operational “#hotspot” in the country
▻http://www.economist.com/news/europe/21690142-economist-visits-only-operational-hotspot-country-what-happens-after-refugees?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ed/whathappensafterrefugeesarriveingreece
#asile #migrations #réfugiés #tri #Grèce
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Berlin’s refugees wait to register. Businesses cannot wait to employ them
IN THE middle of Germany’s capital, refugees—among them pregnant women and babies—are sleeping on the pavement in freezing temperatures. Many come early in the morning, hoping to make it to the head of the line by the following day, says Christiane Beckmann of Moabit Hilft, an organisation of volunteers who provide them with food, clothes and advice. One woman holds up stamps showing she has come unsuccessfully seven days in a row. Their goal is to get into the large, ugly office building of LaGeSo, the German abbreviation for Berlin’s state office for health and social affairs. It is with this agency that refugees must register when they get to Berlin, and then re-register to obtain health care and services.
Türkei fängt 1300 Flüchtlinge ab
Nur Stunden nach der Übereinkunft mit der Europäischen Union (EU) über die Begrenzung des Flüchtlingsstroms haben die Behörden der Türkei rund 1300 Migranten festgenommen, die offenbar über das Meer nach Griechenland wollten.
Im Nordwesten der Türkei haben Behörden rund 1300 Flüchtlinge festgenommen, die offenbar Richtung Griechenland weiterreisen wollten. Zudem seien während des Einsatzes in der Hafenstadt Ayvacik vier Schlepper gefasst sowie mehrere Flüchtlings - und Motorboote beschlagnahmt worden, meldete die staatliche Nachrichtenagentur Anadolu am Montag. #Ayvacik ist der Hauptdurchgangsort für Fahrten zur griechischen Insel Lesbos.
▻http://www.nzz.ch/international/tuerkei-faengt-1300-fluechtlinge-ab-1.18655301
#emprisonnement #détention_administrative #externalisation #Turquie #réfugiés #migrations #asile #Europe
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Turkey arrests 1,300 asylum seekers after £2bn EU border control deal | World news | The Guardian
▻http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/30/turkey-arrests-1300-asylum-seekers-after-2bn-eu-border-control-deal
Turkey has stepped up a crackdown on people smuggling, arresting 1,300 asylum seekers in a single operation just hours after the country promised to curb the flow of refugees to Greece in exchange for financial aid from the EU.
Hundreds of Syrians, Afghans, Iranians and Iraqis and three people smugglers were seized on Monday in the countryside near Ayvacık, a Turkish town north of the Greek island of Lesbos, Reuters and the Associated Press reported. According to the UN, about 425,000 people have arrived in Lesbos in smuggling boats this year, while a further 300,000 have reached other Greek islands from Turkey – leading the EU to criticise its eastern neighbour for not doing enough to police its own border.
UE-Turquie : enfermer les migrants, réprimer les mouvements, bombarder le #Kurdistan
Les ambitions de l’Union européenne sont claires : éviter que les migrants n’arrivent sur le sol européen, et pour cela payer le prix qu’il faudra. Celles de la Turquie également : disposer d’une marge de manœuvre plus large pour mettre en place librement la politique qu’elle entend mener. Au milieu se trouvent des milliers d’hommes, de femmes, d’enfants. L’opinion de Migreurop.
►http://www.courrierdesbalkans.fr/articles/ue-turquie-enfermer-les-migrants-reprimer-les-mouvements-bombarde
Turkey: Syrians Pushed Back at the Border
(Istanbul) – Turkey has all but closed its borders to Syrian asylum seekers and is summarily pushing back Syrians detected as they try to cross, Human Rights Watch said today. Syrians described Turkish border guards intercepting them at or near the border, in some cases beating them, and pushing them and dozens of others back into Syria or detaining and then summarily expelling them along with hundreds of others.
▻https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/styles/node_embed/public/multimedia_images_2015/2015-11-23_turkey_syrian_refugees.jpg?itok=A76qnnqI
►https://www.hrw.org/news/2015/11/23/turkey-syrians-pushed-back-border
[ENG] Eldiario.es: Turkish coastguards detained 752 people close to Çanakkale coasts while they tried to reach Lesvos island, according to civil servants working at Turkish coastguards’ headquarter. Coastguards carried out 8 simultaneous operations along the coast. The body of one unidentified man was found as well. This ’coincides’ with the agreement sealed on Sunday 29th between the European Union and Turkey that urges the latter to control European external border and prevent refugees from crossing.
Hurriyet Daily News: According to the Turkish online newspaper, 1,300 migrants were captured in 8 simoultaneous raids on 29th November (when EU and Turkey were sealing the agreement!). “Three alleged traffickers were detained during the operations, while one gun, four boats and six boat engines were seized, Doğan News Agency reported.
The operations were conducted by around 250 gendarmerie officers on Nov. 29. Around 1,300 migrants who were detained during the operations were sent to the deportation center in Çanakkale’s Ayvacık, which has a capacity of only 84 persons.”
Interesting statistic: “The number of migrants saved after making failed attempts to cross via sea from Turkey into Europe has increased by over 500 percent in 2015 compared to last year.”
Reading Turkish coastguards’ website: Polices and gendarmes carry out these days for months. In July, more than 600 people were apprehended in one night.
Personal questions:
– Do media emphasize this operation because an agreement was signed between Turkey and the EU 2 days ago? Is the situation really changing?
– How is it possible to detain 1,300 persons in one detention centre built for up to 82 persons?
Articles:
▻http://www.eldiario.es/desalambre/refugiados-detenidos-Turqia-intentaban-Lesbos_0_457754535.html
Turquía cumple su parte del trato con la UE y detiene a 752 refugiados
752 refugiados y solicitantes de asilo fueron detenidos frente a la costa de la provincia de Çanakkale, cuando intentaban llegar a la cercana isla griega de Lesbos el lunes, según aseguraron funcionarios de la guardia costera turca al medio local Daily Sabah. La operación coincide con el acuerdo firmado este domingo entre Turquía y la Unión Europea para contener el flujo de refugiados a cambio de recibir 3.000 millones de euros.
Los guardacostas turcos realizaron las detenciones en operaciones simultáneas en ocho puntos diferentes. Entre las personas detenidas hay sirios, afganos, iraquíes e iraníes. Durante la operación, también se ha recuperado el cuerpo sin vida de un hombre que por el momento no ha sido identificado.
La Unión Europea se comprometió este domingo a conceder 3.000 millones de euros a Turquía para los más de 2,2 millones de refugiados sirios que acoge, así como a acelerar el proceso de adhesión del país a la UE y la liberalización de visados, a cambio de que Ankara contenga la inmigración hacia Europa.
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www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkish-coast-guard-detains-1300-migrants-on-northwestern-sea-border.aspx?pageID=238&nID=91889&NewsCatID=341
Turkish coast guard detains 1,300 migrants on northwestern sea border
Some 1,300 migrants were detained off the coast of northwestern Çanakkale province as they attempted to reach the nearby Greek island of Lesbos on Nov. 29, Turkish coast guard officials have said.
The Turkish coast guard made the detentions after carrying out simultaneous operations at eight different locations. Those held included Syrians, Afghans, Iraqis and Iranians, Anadolu Agency reported.
During the operation, the dead body of an unidentified male migrant was also retrieved.
Three alleged traffickers were detained during the operations, while one gun, four boats and six boat engines were seized, Doğan News Agency reported.
The operations were conducted by around 250 gendarmerie officers on Nov. 29. Around 1,300 migrants who were detained during the operations were sent to the deportation center in Çanakkale’s Ayvacık, which has a capacity of only 84 persons.
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The number of migrants saved after making failed attempts to cross via sea from Turkey into Europe has increased by over 500 percent in 2015 compared to last year.
Reçu via la mailing-list Migreurop
Wie Lesbos auf die Türkei hofft
Auf der griechischen Insel leben kaum 100’000 Menschen. Doch 500’000 Flüchtlinge sind schon gekommen. Die Einwohner fragen sich: Hält die Türkei ihr Versprechen?
▻http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/ausland/europa/durchatmen-auf-lesbos/story/23710866
UE-Turquie : enfermer les migrants, réprimer les mouvements, bombarder le Kurdistan
Les ambitions de l’Union européenne sont claires : éviter que les migrants n’arrivent sur le sol européen, et pour cela payer le prix qu’il faudra. Celles de la Turquie également : disposer d’une marge de manœuvre plus large pour mettre en place librement la politique qu’elle entend mener. Au milieu se trouvent des milliers d’hommes, de femmes, d’enfants. L’opinion de Migreurop.
►http://www.courrierdesbalkans.fr/articles/ue-turquie-enfermer-les-migrants-reprimer-les-mouvements-bombarde
Europe has a deal with Turkey, but migrants will keep coming
IN A run-down building in the Tarlabasi district of Istanbul, 24-year-old Zehra, a refugee from Aleppo, lives in a tiny apartment with her husband, mother-in-law, and children. Her youngest, a little girl, was born just a month ago in a Turkish hospital—one of 70,000 Syrian babies born in Turkey since the civil war started in 2011, according to refugee agencies. She faces a precarious future. Zehra says they have received no government aid, and her husband can find only occasional work as a rubbish collector. Few Syrian children attend Turkish schools; instead they roam the streets of Turkish cities selling water or tissues. No wonder so many Syrians brave the short ocean crossing to Greece, hoping for a new life in Europe. Some 127,000 migrants arrived in Europe by sea in November, following on from over 200,000 in October.
▻http://www.economist.com/news/europe/21679333-refugees-misery-still-drives-them-leave-europe-has-deal-turkey-m
Turkish crackdown leaves refugees in limbo
With the EU outsourcing border security to Ankara, refugees are stuck in Turkey and aid groups say people-smuggling is being pushed deeper underground
▻http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/10/turkish-crackdown-leaves-refugees-limbo?CMP=share_btn_tw
Turkey Detains Hundreds of Asylum Seekers
The EU offered Turkey lots of cash to stem the flow of people entering Europe. Hours later, Turkey detained 1,300 refugees and migrants.
▻https://www.facebook.com/ajplusenglish/videos/650936048381239
EU unhappy with Turkish efforts so far to curb migrant inflow
The European Union is far from satisfied yet with the results of Turkish efforts to hold back migrants sailing to Greek islands and will discuss the problem in Ankara on Monday, a senior EU official said.
▻http://www.ekathimerini.com/204850/article/ekathimerini/news/eu-unhappy-with-turkish-efforts-so-far-to-curb-migrant-inflow
signalé par @isskein via la mailing-list de Migreurop
EU tells Turkey migrant flows ’still way too high’
The EU plans to offer Turkey billions of dollars in aid to stem the exodus of refugees into Europe has so far had little effect. Thousands continue to make the perilous journey every day.
▻http://www.dw.com/en/eu-tells-turkey-migrant-flows-still-way-too-high/a-18972085
*Les espoirs déçus de l’accord entre la Turquie et l’UE sur les migrants*
L’Union européenne (UE) commence déjà à douter du plan d’action signé fin novembre à Bruxelles avec Ankara. Les Vingt-Huit espéraient surtout qu’il aboutisse vite à un arrêt brutal des flux de migrants. Or, les chiffres restent pour l’instant importants : environ 2 000 passages par jour depuis le 1er janvier entre la Turquie et les îles grecques de la mer Egée.
▻http://www.lemonde.fr/europe/article/2016/01/09/les-espoirs-decus-de-l-accord-entre-la-turquie-et-l-union-europeenne-sur-les
“Europe’s Gatekeeper”. Amnesty International’s insight on asylum seekers’ detention in Turkey
At the end of the year 2015 the European common migration policy has been dominated by the stiff conviction that, in order to solve the so called “migration crisis”, the Union should prevent them from crossing the European borders.
▻http://www.asylumcorner.eu/europes-gatekeeper-amnesty-internationals-insight-on-asylum-seekers-det
#détention_administrative #rétention
Turkey ’acting illegally’ over Syria refugees deportations
Stray dogs prowled around the entrance. The fence was topped with barbed wire. It was an icy cold morning.
▻http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35135810
#réfugiés_syriens
‘EU refugee deal should not overshadow right violations in Turkey,’ jailed Turkish journalist says
Jailed Turkish journalist Can Dündar has sent the Italian prime minister an open letter arguing the rapprochement between Turkey and the European Union over refugees should not overshadow violations of fundamental rights and freedoms in Turkey during the country’s EU accession process.
▻http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/eu-refugee-deal-should-not-overshadow-right-violations-in-turkey.
Looking for a home | The Economist
▻http://www.economist.com/news/europe/21662597-asylum-seekers-economic-migrants-and-residents-all-stripes-fret-over-their-place-looking?fsrc=scn/tw/te/pe/ed/lookingforahome
FINLAND, with its baffling language and culture of reserve, is not an easy place for outsiders to penetrate. For Nura Farah, the breakthrough came via the dissected brains of dead cows. Ms Farah, who arrived with her mother in 1993 as a teenager seeking asylum from Somalia’s civil war, spent eight years dreaming of a better life in London while she was taunted at school and bore racist abuse on the streets. But in 2001, working as a lab technician in Helsinki, she found herself charged with testing cow tissue for bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad-cow disease. The work was fulfilling, her colleagues encouraging, and she moved on to bigger challenges. She took on Finnish citizenship, gave birth to a son and last year became the first Somali Finn to publish a novel.
Arabesque
▻http://www.economist.com/news/europe/21661043-langue-de-moli-re-gets-north-african-infusion-arabesque
The langue de Molière gets a north African infusion Source : The Economist
A Teutonic union
▻http://www.economist.com/news/europe/21616954-behind-scenes-germany-quietly-asserts-its-influence-brussels-teu
François Hollande [...] has accelerated the decline of French influence in Brussels, even if it began long before he took office.
German demography : Ageing but supple | The Economist
▻http://www.economist.com/news/europe/21646213-responding-creatively-shrinking-populations-ageing-supple?fsrc=scn/tw/te/pe/ageingbutsupple
@klaus ça a l’air d’être moins grave chez toi que ailleurs, mais bon, nous nous faisons du souci quand même .
THE little town of Schladen-Werla in rural Lower Saxony, right alongside the former barrier between East and West Germany, is in a demographic “devil’s spiral”, says Andreas Memmert, its mayor. The place is projected to lose about a third of its population by 2030. “The young and clever leave and the less mobile stay,” he notes. As the population thins out, bus routes, crèches, schools, banks, convenience stores and libraries close for lack of demand. This makes life even harder for remaining residents, so they leave too.
Ukraine’s media war: Battle of the memes | The Economist
▻http://www.economist.com/news/europe/21646280-russia-has-shown-its-mastery-propaganda-war-ukraine-struggling-c
Information warfare, like the shooting kind, is a new art for Ukraine, and the learning curve is steep. Faced with a finely-tuned and well-funded Russian propaganda machine, truth and openness ought to be Ukraine’s most powerful weapons. But truth-telling is slow and painful work, and Kiev often opts for misinformation of its own instead. The Ukrainian authorities gloss over military losses, so much so that domestic observers now interpret the government’s daily situation briefings as a euphemistic code: “14 [killed] means there was lots of fighting, two means it was a relatively quiet day,” says Vitaly Sych, editor of Novoe Vremya, a weekly.
Ukraine’s leaders consistently and implausibly deny any responsibility for civilian deaths, further undermining trust, especially among the population in separatist-held territory. Criticism of the government is dismissed as mudslinging by Kremlin agents. Last month authorities jailed Ruslan Kotsaba, a western Ukrainian blogger who had spoken out against mobilisation. Ukrainian authorities accused him of working in Russia’s interests; Amnesty International labeled him a prisoner of conscience. “We’re becoming just like them,” one senior Ukrainian official laments.
Tasked with bringing order to the information front is the newly-created Ministry of Information Politics, led by Yuriy Stets, a former producer at Channel 5 and a close personal friend of Mr Poroshenko. Journalists and civil-society activists derided the ministry’s creation, dubbing it the “Ministry of Truth”. Mr Stets says his critics “read Orwell but not Churchill,” and compares his information ministry to the one Britain operated during the second world war.
Ukraine’s government : Tragedy and farce | The Economist
▻http://www.economist.com/news/europe/21635029-tensions-between-president-and-prime-minister-may-further-derail
Tensions between president and prime minister may further derail Ukraine
“SHAME! Shame! Shame!” roared the crowd when Ukraine’s leaders appeared at a recent ceremony honouring the Maidan victims. Protesters accused President Petro Poroshenko of breaking promises. A year after the “revolution of dignity” began, the politicians are being anything but dignified. A month has passed since the general election and still Ukraine has no government. Fights over cabinet posts or parliamentary seating speak to a lack of urgency. “It’s a circus, a kindergarten,” says Maria Zhartovskaya, political correspondent for Ukrainskaya Pravda, a website.
Now five pro-Western parties have signed a coalition agreement. Mr Poroshenko and Arseniy Yatsenyuk, the prime minister, promise that the government will follow soon. But competition is hampering negotiations. The voters unexpectedly put Mr Yatsenyuk’s People’s Front first in the election. That was a blow to Mr Poroshenko, and leaves Ukraine with two power centres. The pair have descended into disagreement and posturing, raising fears of a repeat of the tensions that emerged after the Orange revolution.
Mr Poroshenko and Mr Yatsenyuk have never been close. Ukraine’s Western allies are working hard to keep them together. Yet efforts to merge their parties into one ahead of the election failed—some say the two could not agree on a name. Lviv’s mayor, Andriy Sadovyi, whose Samopomich party is the third arm of the coalition, frets about “misunderstandings and little fights”. The main ones are now over the jobs of interior minister, justice minister and parliamentary speaker.
Il y a 8 jours que l’accord de coalition a été conclu — il y a même eu 3 cérémonies officielles de signature — et toujours pas de gouvernement…
Il y a au moins deux points sur lesquels tout le monde est d’accord :
• il est URGENT de réformer
• MAIS, auparavant, il reste quelques détails pratiques (nominations) à régler…
Union eurasiatique : intégration économique ou deuxième guerre froide ?
▻http://www.taurillon.org/union-eurasiatique-integration-economique-ou-deuxieme-guerre-froide
« C’est comme si vous sortiez avec une fille depuis longtemps. Vous avez rencontré ses parents, vos familles sont parties en vacances ensemble, et maintenant vous voulez vous fiancer… l’intégration eurasiatique a été particulièrement laborieuse, mais elle va de l’avant. » Cette déclaration de Pavel Andreev, rédacteur pour l’agence de presse étatique russe Rossiya Segodnya, illustre pourquoi il a fallu tant de temps pour mettre l’Union eurasiatique sur pied.
Actualité
/ #Biélorussie, #Russie
▻http://www.economist.com/news/europe/21613319-why-russia-backs-eurasian-union-other-eu
▻http://www.theguardian.com/world/shortcuts/2014/feb/18/brief-primer-vladimir-putin-eurasian-union-trade
Ukraine and Russia : Win some, lose more | The Economist
▻http://www.economist.com/news/europe/21618840-all-celebrations-kiev-over-ratifying-trade-deal-europe-it-russia
But that does not make defeat any less real. After six months of fighting, Ukraine has lost at least 3,000 men and control over a swathe of territory in the east, as well as being forced by Russia to delay the full implementation of its association agreement with the European Union.
Après le constat de la « victoire » russe, l’Economist pose quelques « vraies » questions :
On the same day the Rada ratified the association agreement, it passed a law granting special status to the part of the Donbas controlled by Russian-backed separatists, including the cities of Donetsk and Luhansk. The law gives these territories broad autonomy for three years, guarantees Russian-language rights and self-governance, and allows them to establish deeper ties with Russia—although it does not give the region a say in foreign or defence policy. Another law offers an amnesty to rebel fighters. Mr Poroshenko’s aides say this was the only way to save lives, but it poses uncomfortable questions. “What did our boys die for? Why did we not hold peace talks back in May?” asked Sergei Taruta, the Kiev-appointed governor of the Donetsk region.
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Both Mr Putin and Mr Poroshenko have reasons to want a truce: Mr Putin to avoid more sanctions and questions from relatives of dead soldiers, and Mr Poroshenko ahead of a parliamentary election on October 26th. But this does not mean the end of Ukraine’s troubles and Russia’s adventurism. The Kremlin’s goal is not just to control two cities in eastern Ukraine, but to stop all of Ukraine from moving westward. Further violence in the east is possible as rebels try to capture more territory.
The biggest danger, however, is that the fragile truce will be followed by the usual political wrangling in Kiev and renewed Ukraine fatigue in the West. The only way Ukraine can realise its European aspirations is over many years, by building an economically and politically coherent state. That will take patience, money and time from the West and perseverance from Ukraine. But not to try would mean the ultimate defeat and betrayal of those who died for Ukraine’s sovereignty.
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Le plus grand danger ? les querelles politiciennes à Kiev…
Quant à une politique économique cohérente, l’article cite plus haut les urgences qui n’ont pas été mises en œuvre par le gouvernement provisoire sous prétexte du conflit oriental :
but it is unclear why the government could not have begun to remove wasteful energy subsidies, deregulate the economy or curb corruption.
Mesures éminemment propres, surtout la première, à obtenir un soutien massif de la population…
A surge from the sea
ANOTHER weekend, another two thousand-odd immigrants rescued by Italian sailors and coastguards in the Mediterranean. On August 11th the San Giusto, an amphibious transport vessel, landed 1,698 people in Reggio Calabria, a city in southern Italy. The day before, a naval patrol vessel and a frigate disembarked 364 people at ports in eastern Sicily.
Germany and Russia : How very understanding | The Economist
▻http://www.economist.com/news/europe/21601897-germanys-ambivalence-towards-russia-reflects-its-conflicted-iden
Germany’s ambivalence towards Russia reflects its conflicted identity
WHEN Germans add the word Versteher (one who understands) to a term, they generally mix flattery with irony. So a Frauenversteher (one who understands women) is usually a man who boasts excessively about his knowledge of the opposite sex. The label is now being attached to so-called Russlandversteher or Putinversteher: members of the elite or intelligentsia who gush with empathy for Russia and its president, Vladimir Putin, on talk shows, in journals and at dinner parties.
Avec une conclusion toute en finesse,…
“Germany has never figured out whether it wants to be part of the West,” says John Kornblum, a former American ambassador to Germany who is now a lawyer in Berlin. Within Europe, he argues that “the Germans are the strongest, but are totally without a strategic sense. At the moment, they are almost as dangerous as the Russians.” Ulrich Speck at Carnegie Europe, a think-tank in Brussels, sees the danger as a drift away from Germany’s Western identity and its strategic bond with America. “The more America confronts Russia to defend the principles of international order,” he says, “the more Germany will distance itself from America.” For Europe, as for Germany itself, any such shift would be disastrous.
Pas de signature donc, apparemment, éditorial.