In the Doubs, cross -border workers lead the life of a truck – Liberation

At the start of the evening, silence and biting cold reign in the municipal car park of the village of Fourgs (Doubs). When we knock on the doors, « No » Categorical, although still polite, escape through the steep windows. For the past year, a dozen housing trucks have been established on this spot 2 kilometers from Swiss customs. But fearing to attract people and scalded by their experiences with the media, their occupants are reluctant to engage. These nomads are young people, for the most part, who crèche there at night and go the day on the Helvetian side by car. Like 231,000 cross -border workers – against 150,100 years ago -, they occupy on the other side of the border of ambulance posts, cook, secretary, truck driver … sectors that recruit in Switzerland, with wages almost twice as high in France.

After trying to keep them away, the municipality has decided to adapt: ​​for the time being, it lets them park against 200 euros per month, with access to water and electricity. But faced with a phenomenon that sets up and to release this tourist car park, the mayor (without label), Roger Belot, imagined a lasting solution: Building a reception platform for ten trucks, with Domic