The applicants, three families of Congolese and Georgian origin, had arrived in France in 2018.
MO12345lemonde with AFP
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) condemned France on Thursday, December 8, for not sheltering asylum seekers, despite court decisions going in their direction, in 2018 to 2018 Toulouse.
The applicants, two Congolese families and a Georgian, arrived in France between April and June 2018. The prefecture of Haute-Garonne had granted them everyone certificates of asylum application, M ais had not answered or had refused their hosting requests. The three families, separately, turned to the Toulouse administrative court. The judge in summary proceedings granted them to each an order enjoining the prefect to find them a place of accommodation. Ordinances which have remained without effect.
5,000 euros fine for each of the families
The ECHR notes that the prefect, representative of the State in the department, “did not respond to the requests of the applicants and did not execute these orders before the intervention of the provisional measures pronounced by the Court, to The rest of which only the applicants were accommodated. ” The Court concludes “that there was a violation of article 6.1 of the European Convention on Human Rights (right of access to a court).
The ECHR, the judicial arm of the Council of Europe, thus condemns France to pay 5,000 euros to each of the three families, as well as 7,150 euros jointly for costs and expenses.
Furthermore, by a separate judgment, the ECHR does not condemn France concerning the evacuation of camps illegally installed in various places in the Paris region where applicants, Romanian nationals belonging to the Roma community, lived with their families. “The interference of the authorities in the right to respect for the privacy of the applicants was provided by law and aimed at legitimate goals for the protection of health and public security, as well as the protection of the rights and freedoms of Others, namely the property right of the owners of the land concerned, “notes the ECHR.