“Saint-Brévin aux Brévinois”: some 250 people once again demonstrated on Saturday April 29, against the relocation of a reception center for asylum seekers (CADA) in Saint-Brévin, in Loire-Atlantique. “Now that there is no more room in large and small towns, migrants are scattered in the villages,” denounced Benoît Rouze, a dissident activist from the Reconquest party, who came from Blois.
Protesters gathered outside City Hall. To the cries of “In Callac, we won, in Saint-Brévin, we will win”, the speeches followed one another to denounce the construction of this new Cada near a school and, more broadly, “the uncontrolled immigration”. As in Callac, in the Côtes d’Armor, far-right organizations such as Action française, Le Rassemblement vendéen, Riposte laïque or La Cocarde were present.
“We must stop the totally uncontrolled immigration which will destroy our country,” said Bernard Germain. Candidate for Reconquest in the Côtes d’Armor in the last legislative elections, the latter was the spokesperson for the committee hostile to the project, abandoned last January, to welcome people who have obtained refugee status in Callac.
A counter-demonstration had preceded these anti-Cada earlier in the day, between noon and 2 p.m. 300 demonstrators, according to the police, had denounced this rally in the city center. “The far right wants to make believe that there is a problem in Saint-Brévin while the reception and support of migrants is going very well,” commented LFI deputy for Saint-Nazaire, Matthias Tavel.
Clashes erupted in the early afternoon between anti-fascist demonstrators and the police who prevented them from accessing the anti-Cada rally. A scuffle also opposed activists from both sides in the streets of Saint-Brévin. An anti-Cada protester was lightly injured according to police and the car of a “young patriot” was set on fire. At the end of the morning, in peace, around 70 people had responded to the call of the collective of appalled and united Brévinois, near the school where the future Cada will be built. Symbolically, a first stone was laid in front of the construction site of the future building and a “big party” announced for the start of the school year.
