While the Minister of the Interior promised dozens of renewals, almost all the survivors were integrated into the national reception system for asylum seekers.
by Gilles ROF (Marseille, correspondent) and Julia Pascual
There were only four people left on Monday, November 21, in the Giens peninsula (Var). Four, among the 190 migrants survivors of the Ocean-Viking which had been placed in this space transformed for the occasion into an international waiting zone. This is the closed system that the Ministry of the Interior had imagined at the time of the landing of the humanitarian ship in the military port of Toulon on November 11. A way to say that the shipwrecked – including Bangladais, Eritreans, Syrians, Egyptians, Pakistanis or Malians – did not enter the territory. And that their asylum eligibility should first be examined in order to sort through those who would be intended to be welcomed and those who would be expelled. A sort of hotspot of circumstance, of which only 44 isolated minors had been excluded given their care by social assistance to childhood.
But ten days after its implementation, the project has long fired and took all the features of a politico-legal fiasco, exploited by the right and the extreme right.
As part of the Asylum emergency procedure at the border, applicable to international waiting areas, the Ministry of the Interior has taken 123 refusal in the territory, considering, on prior notice of the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Effrusion, a majority of survivors were not refugees.
These refusal of entry are, essentially, immediately became obsolete since nearly a hundred people had already left the Giens waiting area at the time of their enact. During two days of chaotic hearing, on November 16 and 17, the Aix-en-Provence Court of Appeal had, in fact, confirmed their release, validating the decisions taken at first instance by the judges of Toulon court. The latter refused to extend the maintenance in the waiting zone requested by the Var prefecture, believing that the twenty-four hour period imposed by law to rule was exceeded.
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The judicial marathon of the Ocean-Viking migrants found his epilogue before the Toulon administrative court, seized of appeal against the refusals of entry. There too, most of the hearings turned short, the judges can only see the fact that the applicants were already on the territory, because they had benefited, after their passage before the Aix-en-Provence Court of Appeal , a temporary entry permission to France.
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