At the Coquelles police station, the inspectors saw up to four people living in individual cells (7 m²), and sometimes up to thirteen in collective cells (11 m²). Most of the people slept on the ground, and some did not even have covers. Since the collective cells did not have toilets, the persons in them had to comply with the availability of policemen to visit the toilets. In the overcrowded single cells, the detainees were forced to use the toilets in the presence of their cellmates, which does not respect human dignity. The policemen and gendarmes seem to be concerned, but are exhausted due to the workload. All of the policemen of the Coquelles police station are under great stress due to the collective processing that they are forced to do. In the destination CRA, the number of people moved simultaneously weighs heavily on the quality of reception and the delivered information, and also hinders the treatment of the other detainees.  A misuse of the procedure of placing a person in administrative detention A group of elements showed a willingness to distribute people over the national territory in order to “unclog” Calais: the number of persons transferred every day is high and stable, the remarks are heard by the inspectors and the observations made tend to show that a number of placements is determined in advance depending on the capacity of the means of transport to the CRAs of the national territory, and the scheduling of the transportation seems to be organised according to a predefined frequency (every five to nine days for the same institution). This therefore assumes that the persons who arrive at the CRA in the first convoy leave it by the time the second one arrives with more transferred persons. The sole purpose of administrative detention should be to allow the government to organise the deportation of the person. A foreign national may be placed in detention only for the period strictly necessary for his departure and if the application of less coercive measures is not sufficient. The countries of origin of most of the transferred people are particularly sensitive: Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Eritrea and Sudan. And yet, taking into account the risks incurred concerning their physical integrity if they are deported, a number of these people cannot, in practice, be sent back. The large number of people released on the decision of the administration shows a lack of willingness to execute the issued OQTF. Even knowing of the seriousness of the national situation created by a largescale migration crisis and the complexity of the local situation, the CGLPL believes that this procedure of collective transfers over the entire national territory deprives the persons concerned of access to their rights and is implemented in physical conditions that violate their dignity. Moreover, this is a misuse of the administrative detention procedure, since it is not being used to organise deportations to countries of origin, but is instead used for moving hundreds of people and distributing them across the territory of France, with the goal of “unclogging” the city of Calais. The CGLPL therefore recommended that this procedure should be stopped. In his response, the Minister of the Interior firstly reminded the CGLPL of the challenges of the migration crisis in Europe and its consequences in the Pale of Calais, a known passage for migrants journeying to Great Britain, which therefore faces several intrusions in the cross-Channel link. He then mentioned the measures taken by the government: easing access to requests for asylum in France, offering accommodation in reception centres outside the Calais zone for migrants who are open to reconsidering their migration plans. Simultaneously, stronger measures have been taken to prevent the illegal crossing of the border with the United Kingdom. 43