French High School Student Faces Deportation, Sparks Community Protest

"A meeting is scheduled for school staff and parents this Saturday at 11 a.m. in front of the Vincennes detention center," announced Jérôme Piques, CGT education 93 delegate and the student’s French teacher. They have all mobilized for Ahcene B.

After this action, they intend to mobilize again on Monday, December 2, in front of their high school, at 3 p.m. (local time), specifies Le Parisien. They are demanding only two things: the release and regularization of the young high school student threatened with deportation.

"Ahcene was arrested on Sunday [November 24] at 7 p.m., during a simple identity check, and then immediately placed in the Vincennes detention center," recounts his uncle Idir. Then, the Obligation to Leave French Territory (OQTF) was notified to him at the same time as the possibility of an appeal to contest it, he said.

In June 2018, the young Algerian arrived in France with his seriously ill mother. Unlike her son, she is awaiting a residence permit. For his teachers, this 2nd year CAP Hairdressing student is a willing, motivated, serious and hardworking student. "He arrived at André Sabatier at the start of the school year, has a quite correct level of French that allows him to follow his schooling. He is integrated into the high school, immediately found his place and his teachers are very happy with him," said Chahra Chibati, the school’s principal educational advisor.