Moroccan Man Avoids Deportation After Hunger Strike, Secures Legal Status in France

After 17 days of hunger strike, Florence and Ahmed finally obtained an appointment on Tuesday, October 5 with the prefecture services, who gave a favorable and exceptional response to Ahmed’s case, summarizes to France info the companion of the Moroccan. A permanent contract of employment in a construction company has earned her companion, a man with a clean criminal record, this regularization.

The couple was observing this hunger strike to obtain justice. But Ahmed had fainted last Thursday after swallowing a piece of sugar and had been hospitalized at the Besançon University Hospital. The couple has now ended this hunger strike. "We are happy to be able to eat again, but above all to envisage a normal life and a future," says this mother of a family. Florence and Ahmed thank the prefect and his services for the quality of their discernment and their time.

Since January 13, Ahmed had been under an obligation to leave French territory (OQTF), for having entered France without a visa. Despite his marriage of love with Florence, a divorced woman and mother of three children, he had been asked to return to Morocco to apply for a visa. A long and uncertain process. "It sometimes takes two years to get a visa and with the OQTF it’s not guaranteed," lamented his wife.