Reported on 25.06.2025
Testimony shared by an Eritrean man living in Calais, whose belongings were seized by the police during an early morning operation, at 6:30AM, in June 2025.
“The police came. They were scared and tried to run away, and they left everything in this place. His tent and everything. Other people were in the same situation. They were scared from the police, so they tried to run away, and the police took everything. Like tents, and things like that. And even the telephone inside the tent.”
“When the police came, he tried to run away, because they were going to catch him. As the situation in Libya, when he saw the police, he tries to run away directly and doesn’t focus on the tents.”
Personal belongings seized during police raids can, in theory, be recovered at the “Ressourcerie,” a facility tasked with sorting, recycling, and selling second-hand items in Calais.
“He goes there 3 or 4 times to check since the date. He tried many times.”
“Sometimes they say “no, there is no telephone here”, sometimes they bring 3 or 4 telephones, but there is not his telephone.”
(Testimony shared in Tigrinya and mediated by a translator)