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Allemagne : un site web pour signaler les incidents dans les structures d’accueil

Un nouveau site internet doit permettre d’évaluer et d’améliorer les conditions de vie dans les "centres d’ancrage" en permettant à leurs résidents de témoigner de leur quotidien.

En Allemagne, trois Länder (Etats fédérés), dont la Bavière, ont transformé l’an dernier près d’une dizaine de centres d’accueil en "centres d’ancrage" Les demandeurs d’asile peuvent rester jusqu’à 24 mois dans ces centres à guichet unique en attendant que leur dossier soit traité.

Alors que ce dispositif est très critiqué, les Conseils pour les réfugiés de Bavière et de Munich ont mis en place avec d’autres partenaires le site internet “ANKER-Watch”, pour rendre compte de la vie dans ces centres et recueillir les témoignages et réclamations de leurs résidents.

Sur ce site internet, les demandeurs d’asile qui vivent ou ont vécu dans un centre d’ancrage peuvent :

Remplir un questionnaire anonyme sur les conditions de vie pour "analyser les problèmes concrets". Ce questionnaire est en anglais, allemand et dari.
Rapporter un incident ou des mauvais comportements
Contacter l’équipe d’ANKER-Watch par mail, par téléphone, sms, WhatsApp ou encore sur Facebook, Twitter et Instagram

Selon le site internet, il s’agit aussi de permettre au personnel travaillant dans les centres de signaler des incidents ou de faire connaître leurs opinions. Les faits signalés peuvent aller de conditions d’insalubrité à des cas d’agressions.

Lutter contre la culture du silence

"Ce qui manquait était un moyen de documenter et de rendre public les petites choses du quotidien qui ne vont pas se retrouver dans la presse", assure Katharina Grote du Conseil pour les réfugiés de Bavière. Selon elle, à côté d’une poignée de bénévoles, au moins cinq personnes travaillent actuellement à temps plein pour le site. Jusqu’à présent, seuls quelques résidents ont utilisé l’outil de signalement d’incidents, mais les appels pour des questions concernant les centres d’ancrage se sont multipliés.

Katharina Grote explique qu’il s’agit d’amener les résidents à ne pas avoir peur d’être sanctionnés s’ils rapportent un incident. Certains craignent en effet que cela puisse nuire à leur dossier et avoir des conséquences sur leur demande d’asile.

Un dispositif critiqué

Le but affiché des centres d’ancrage est de raccourcir la durée de traitement des demandes d’asile, en proposant tous les services nécessaires à l’étude du dossier dans un seul et même lieu. En juillet dernier, soit un an après leur lancement, le ministre allemand de l’Intérieur s’est vanté du succès de ce concept.

Mais les ONG de défense des réfugiés estiment que ces lieux sont des centres de détention de masse dont les résidents sont privés d’un accès à la justice et coupés de la société. De plus, des expulsions vers les pays d’origine ont lieu quotidiennement depuis ces centres, ce qui rend le séjour psychologiquement très difficile pour les résidents.

▻https://www.infomigrants.net/fr/post/19447/allemagne-un-site-web-pour-signaler-les-incidents-dans-les-structures-

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#Anker-watch :

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Who we are and our Goals

In order to get more insight into the living conditions of the people, despite the isolated situation of the ANKER centres, to give them a voice and to make this known to the public, the bavarian and munich refugee councils together with a broad network of supporting organisations and individuals founded “ANKER-Watch”. On the one hand a survey will be conducted to find out what the conditions in the institutions are like and on the other hand a platform will be offered for reports from experts and victims on the subject. The aim is to break through the isolation barrier and make these problems more transparent to the public.

The introduction of ANKER centres has brought about a major change for all those who are either active full-time in the refugee field or on a voluntary basis. Access to and the exchange with refugees has become much more difficult than before due to the often remote camps and the inaccessibility of those. At the same time, the need for support seems to be increasing due to the difficult circumstances in the ANKER facilities. The Bavarian and Munich Refugee Councils in particular have been repeatedly informed of serious grievances, fatal living conditions and experiences of violence by fugitives from the ANKER centres. In most ANKER centres there are only a few active volunteers. Access is complicated and the burden and frustration for volunteers is high.

Out of the collected reports, we are creating a documentation in the form of a watch list.

We stand up for the rights of refugees. We are against the exclusion and isolation of refugees by placing them in camps and we demand equal rights and a life in safety for all.

▻https://www.anker-watch.de/en/about-us

Doctors to quit German ’Anchor Center’ for asylum seekers

The international human rights organization Doctors of the World says it won’t continue to run medical clinics at an asylum seeker center in Bavaria. The group says the living conditions in the Anchor Center make it impossible to provide proper treatment.

The German branch of Doctors of the World has announced that it is pulling out of the so-called Anchor Center (known as “Anker”-Center in German) in Manching-Ingolstadt in Bavaria as of the end of October.

The organization was joined by a number of other groups in criticizing the one-stop processing facilities for asylum seekers during a hearing of the state’s parliamentary committee on legal affairs in late September.

Despite calls from the Greens party for the Anchor Centers to be shut down, the chief of the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees, Hans Echkard-Sommer, defended the system and said the centers had made asylum procedures faster and more effective, according to reports in the Die Welt daily newspaper.

’Sickening living conditions’

Doctors of the World has been offering an onsite clinic twice a month since January, providing psychological and psychiatric care to asylum seekers in the center. The Ingolstadt facility was the first “Anker” Center (Arrival, Distribution, Decision and Return facility) to open in Germany. Located in a former military barracks, the center was intended to accommodate asylum seekers from “safe countries of origin,” such as Bosnia, Serbia and Macedonia.

“The sickening living conditions in the Anchor Center at Manching/Ingolstadt prohibit successful treatment,” said Professor Heinz-Jochen Zenker, a psychiatrist and committee chair of Doctors of the World. “Under these circumstances, Doctors of the World cannot take responsibility for the condition of patients with severe mental illness and for their medication.”

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The group said factors like inadequate protection from assault, lack of privacy, and disturbances at night, as well as uncertainty about the future and insufficient control over their own lives meant that patients could not even be made stable, let alone cured. The group said medical teams were under too much pressure as a result.

No system to identify vulnerable migrants

Some people who attend bi-monthly clinics offered by Doctors of the World at the Manching facility have been severely traumatized through experiencing war, rape and other forms of violence, according to the organization. Yet they often find their way to the clinic “by chance”.

The group also says there is no systematic procedure in place at the Anchor Center to identify highly vulnerable residents. And even when special needs are recognized, there is no procedure nor sufficient personnel to provide the necessary support.

Doctors of the World says despite the fact that it has raised these concerns in the past, only minor changes have been made as a result, and the “sickening structure of the facility remains in place.”
The organization says it had “no choice” but to withdraw from the facility, though it will continue to provide support to staff who remain in the center. The psychological counselling and psychiatric walk-in clinic in Munich will continue to operate.

Three German states, including Bavaria, last year turned nine reception facilities into Anchor Centers. Asylum seekers are supposed to stay at the anchor centers for up to 24 months while their applications are being processed — and they either receive asylum or get deported.

Since their launch, the concept of the holding facilities has been repeatedly criticized by NGOs while the government has called them a success. This summer, the Bavarian and Munich refugee councils together with a network of partner and support organizations launched the “ANKER-Watch” website to document and “critically monitor” the situation inside the seven Bavarian anchor centers.

▻https://www.infomigrants.net/en/post/20011/doctors-to-quit-german-anchor-center-for-asylum-seekers

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