Moroccan Man Resists Deportation at Paris Airport, Returned to Detention in Brittany

An unusual event. While he was supposed to board the plane on Monday, June 20 at 12:30 p.m. to return to Morocco, a Moroccan expelled from France, obstructed the execution of the removal measure, reports Le Télégramme. The Breton police had to take him back to a hotel near Saint-Brieuc where a "temporary administrative detention center" was created by order of the prefecture of Côtes-d’Armor on June 20, 2022. The Moroccan national was released upon leaving the police station. However, he is assigned to residence.

This failed expulsion provoked the anger of the police unions who denounce the costly absurdity of such a system. "We are setting up a temporary administrative detention center without a service note, without a risk analysis on building safety, with a hotel open to the public, moreover," summarizes a Breton delegate from Alliance. "1,000 km for nothing, it’s really our job that is discredited when, according to our information, there was room at the detention center in Le Mesnil Amelot... How to waste energy and money uselessly," he fumes with anger.

The same feeling at UNSA police. "We have two police officers in charge of guarding a man, from 6 p.m. to 3 a.m., so two hotel rooms to pay, three other police officers taking over at 3 a.m. for a return at 6:30 p.m., and more than 1,000 kilometers with the current price of diesel...," notes a delegate. Not to mention that the plane ticket is non-refundable.

A Breton activist from the Cimade deplores "dehumanized procedures". "For two or three years, most foreigners here have had trouble getting news from the prefecture about their residence permit applications. So they find themselves in enormous stress, because they don’t have papers. And it’s enough for them to be checked, because they’re parked badly in a parking lot, for that to earn them an Obligation to Leave French Territory. On average, it costs thousands of euros to expel and this money should be used to really welcome..."