Supplementary note by Ambassade de France
(CHT 19)
SOME FIGURES ON POLICE AND JUDICIAL ACTION
IN PAS-DE-CALAIS TO CRACK DOWN ON ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION
2001
Foreigners without adequate documentation stopped
and checked: 82,317 (Afghans 63.52%, Iraqis 25.8%)
Persons subsequently held in police detention:
6,641
People smugglers stopped and checked, of 36
different nationalities
Average daily number of people staying in the
Sangatte Centre: 840
FROM 1 JANUARY
2002 TO 1 JULY
2002
Foreigners without adequate documentation stopped
and checked: 58,350 (Afghans 57.76%, Iraqis 34,87%) ie + 91.45%.
Persons subsequently held in police detention:
3,330 (+ 8.9%)
Estimated average number of times a person is
stopped and checked: 3.7
People smugglers stopped and checked (as at
1 July 2002): 132 (equivalent to 2001 over a comparable period),
of 18 different nationalities
Average daily number of people staying in the
Sangatte Centre: 1,332 (peak of 1,768 on 21 January 2002)
On 17 July 2002 1,372 people were staying
in the centre, and 1,310 on 18 July 2002. That day 69 people
arrived at the centre, of whom 40 claimed to have come from Iraq,
13 from Afghanistan and 13 were minors.
24 July 2002
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