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Blog :: Dieppe seen by Peter Avis
Let Jessica’s family stay in Dieppe | 10/06/2010
From time to time in Dieppe – as elsewhere – you have to believe again in the good will of the folk around you. And it happened this week, as a thousand and more people traipsed through the centre of town behind banners proclaiming their support for Jessica and Yannick and their mum Monique.
Most of the demonstrators were fellow students and teachers of Jessica Ngami, a teenage Congolese girl who is studying at the Lycée Ango, a large secondary school on the outskirts of Dieppe. Jessica’s brother and mother have been informed by the prefecture – the regional office of the national government – that they are due to be expelled from France within a month.
In fact, the family has ben living peacefully here for several years, having had to leave the Democratic Republic of Congo, where Monique fell out with the political élite. Her children, Yannick, 19, and Jessica, 16, are studying in Dieppe and doing well. Yannick is following a technical course and Jessica has a grant which she hopes will enable her eventually to achieve her ambition of qualifying as a midwife. Monique and Yannick are threatened with expulsion; Jessica, as a minor, is not covered by the exclusion order but would be unlikely to be able to stay on in France alone.
"No," declared her school friends on the march to the government office in Dieppe, "the Ngami family must stay."
Local opinion is mobilised in defence of a family of impeccable credentials, whose members are well integrated into the society in which they have made their home. The marchers stopped by at the town hall on the way to petition the government representative in Dieppe. The mayor and a group of councillors proclaimed on the town hall steps their support for the family. And the mayor, Sébastien Jumel, announced that a symbolic ceremony would be held at the end of the week to declare the family to be under the patronage of the republic. The local (MP), Sandrine Hurel, is also pressing the government to withdraw the expulsion order. Monique says she would face imprisonment if she returned to her native land.
Not every day, but sometimes, in France you are reminded of the best traditions of the republic; and then the historic slogan of 1789 – Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité – does not sound hollow. Jessica is not alone in this outpost of Normandy.
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I'm glad that people in Diepe are joining the fight against this sort of inhuman treatment.
Has Jessica gained the right to stay?