In the Roya Valley, cameras worry Cédric Herrou

Cédric Herrou knows the paths of the Roya valley like her pocket.It is by a steep earth that he reaches his house and his agricultural land, it is on the steep slopes that he walks in his spare time.It is above all these ways, through the mountain, that hundreds of migrants take to try to cross the Franco-Italian border, officially closed since 2015.Sunday, the farmer, who became the symbol of aid to migrants, wandered on a Sospel path (Alpes-Maritimes) when he found a "hidden camera": "It is a well-stuck device.She was hung on a post near the railway, he says.There is a black protective box so that it is not flown, a motion detector and an LED for night vision.»»»»Cédric Herrou goes his way.

Cameras of this type, he had already found it in the Roya Valley: on the trails last year, around his field in 2018."I stole a dozen.Everywhere, on all paths or near the railway, he says.One day, I was on a track that leads to a canyon: it starts in Italy and passes over the PPA [authorized crossing point, checkpoint of the police on the road, editor's note] to join theFrance.At a crossroads, there was a camera.»»»»Cédric Herrou picks up certain boxes, withdraw the memory card and views shots on his computer.According to his story, "we saw the mobile gendarmes, with their black outfits, place the cameras.They are in front of and are photographed when they leave because it works with a motion detector, ”maintains the one who lost the shots according to the searches and the seizures of the equipment."When the cameras were installed around the house, I saw the cops raising the photos every morning," he continues.

"You wonder how the images are used"»»»

On one of the shots that Cédric Herrou sent Liberation, the image of two hikers is captured by the trigger.We are July 28, 2018 at 11:40 a.m..Shorts, sneakers and backpacks, the two athletes take a dirt road and leaves.Behind them, the safety slide, the road then the cliff.The track of a hunter who would have lost his camera is dismissed: difficult to capture beautiful photos of animals on the side of the road."We see tourists passing, animals then migrants," says Herrou.You wonder how the images are used.For me, for migrants, it is facies control.»»»»

The owner's question arises."The national police and gendarmerie services have currently positioned any surveillance camera on mountain trails near the Franco-Italian interior border. Ils peuvent ponctuellement être amenés à le faire dans le cadre d’enquêtes judiciaires menées sous le contrôle du parquet ou d’un juge d’instruction»»»», expose la préfecture des Alpes-Maritimes.And to continue: "the system mentioned by M.Herrou is a device of video protection cameras belonging to the SNCF.These cameras are part of a detection system aimed at preventing people's accidents and unlawful penetration in SNCF rights -of -way.This mountainous rail sector is perilous for any person foreign to the service.»»"For state services," this is a video surveillance system of a private field "»».

De son côté, la SNCF soutient qu’il n’existe «aucun dispositif pour filmer autour des voies»»»», seulement des appareils qui mesurent le mouvement des ouvrages – fragilisés par la tempête Alex – et d’autres qui détectent la présence sur les voies à des endroits stratégiques, près des lycées par exemple. Quoi qu’il en soit, toute vidéoprotection sur le domaine public doit faire l’objet d’une étude d’impact auprès de la Cnil (Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés), d’une information «au moyen de panneaux affichés en permanence, de façon visible, dans les lieux concernés»»»» et d’une sécurisation des données traitées. «Le contrôle aux frontières ne figure pas parmi ces finalités»»»», fait savoir la Cnil.

Cédric Herrou comes out of a long court at the end of which he was released.After being sentenced on appeal to four months suspended prison sentence in August 2017 for having taken care of migrants, the activist had seized the Constitutional Council. Finalement, le «principe de fraternité»»»» avait été retenu et sa condamnation annulée.Cédric Herrou will not commit a continuation on the discovery of these cameras.Private or public domain, he prefers to ironize: "It is dangerous for those who like to make love in the mountains.»»»»