The Minister of the Interior requests the “systematic” registration of foreigners under an OQTF to the file of sought after (RPF) to count all foreigners under OQTF leaving the national territory.
Le Monde with AFP
Gérald Darmanin asked the prefects on Thursday to apply more firmly the obligations to leave French territory (OQTF) to “the whole” of foreigners in an irregular situation and no longer only to “delinquents”, priority targets of his project of immigration law.
Since 2020, 3,500 foreigners “constituting a threat to public order” have been expelled, according to the Ministry of the Interior. “I ask you to apply to all foreigners under OQTF the method used for the follow -up of delinquent foreigners,” wrote the Minister of the Interior in an investigation consulted by AFP. For this, Gérald Darmanin calls on the prefects to issue these measures “at the end of an arrest or a refusal of a residence permit” and to “exercise a real” stay police “”. In addition to the recall of the law already applicable, he requests the “systematic” registration of people who are the subject of an OQTF in the file of sought after (RPF) in order to “count all foreigners under OQTF leaving the national territory, this which is not the case today “.
This systematic registration would, according to him, better assess the OQTF execution rate, estimated today at less than 10 % out of an annual total of 120,000 measures. The right and the extreme right regularly denounce this rate of execution of the OQTF, one of the weakest in Europe, symbol, according to them, of the impotence of the State in matters of evictions. This recurring debate was relaunched by the murder of Lola, a 12 -year -old girl, whose suspect is an Algerian national under an OQTF.
The number of these measures executed is up 22 % in 2022, said the minister in his investigation. Gérald Darmanin also asks that foreigners under OQTF be “systematically” assigned to house, “at a reliability” and not “complacency”, when they cannot be placed in an administrative detention center. He also recalls his desire to make the lives of people under OQTF “impossible” by obtaining the suspension of their social rights. At the beginning of 2023, the Minister of the Interior must present a bill aimed, among other things, to reform asylum procedures to achieve more evictions, in particular by dividing the possibilities of appeal.