Moroccan Student with Disability Faces Deportation Despite Medical Needs and Academic Success

Amine Hachimy suffers from a pathology that forces him to move around in an electric wheelchair (a central nervous system disorder) and whose treatment is available in France. At the age of 13, he left Morocco for the Metropolis. Today, he is in the final year of high school, at the adapted high school for physically disabled students in Eysines. He plans to continue his schooling and receive treatment in Bordeaux, but is facing a huge difficulty. The prefecture of Gironde refused last February to grant him a residence permit, reports Sud Ouest.

However, his neurologist insisted on the need for Amine to follow his treatment without interruption. "Amine benefits from essential drug treatment, without which his neurological condition is likely to deteriorate. Any interruption of this care could have detrimental consequences on his health and general development." In addition, the young Moroccan is described as a brilliant student, who has an excellent level of French, which "earns him a diploma in French language studies."

His lawyer struggles to understand this refusal by the prefecture of Gironde. "He has invested in a course to obtain a vocational baccalaureate and is destined to work in the production of multimedia products and in graphic design," notes Pierre Landet, noting that the lack of administrative regularization generates a certain anxiety for Amine. He has appealed to the administrative court of Bordeaux to have the prefectural decree annulled.

"His life path is painful and complex. The family cell has never been separated. It is constant and forms a block. His parents found themselves unable to have him treated in Morocco. They had no other choice but to come to Bordeaux where there are suitable medical facilities," the lawyer pleads. The decision of the administrative court is expected soon.