He is the sixth to appear before the judge for freedoms and detention, on Wednesday 28 August. In this annex of the court adjoining the administrative detention centre (CRA) of Mesnil-Amelot (Seine-et-Marne), the judge rules every day on the extension of the detention of foreigners requested by the administration. A short distance away, planes continually take off from the runways of Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle airport.
A priori, those arrested must be expelled within a maximum of 90 days. But Issa (the people mentioned by name are anonymous) has virtually no chance of being expelled. And rightly so: he is originally from Gaza. “There is a complete absence of prospects of expulsion”He went that day to testify before his lawyer, Samy Djemaoun, despite the fact that the law establishes that a foreigner cannot be detained “only for the time strictly necessary for their departure”. “There is a situation of blind violence in Gaza, there is not a square meter that is not bombed. Therefore, going to Gaza means going to commit suicide.M also pleadedmy Djemaoun. And Palestine has no control over its external borders, so applying for a consular pass to Palestine is useless. »
Yet this is what the prefect of Seine-Saint-Denis did, who arrested Issa in August and asked the Palestinian authorities to expel him, even though France does not recognize the Palestinian State. This 34-year-old man, father of two French children and spouse of a French woman, arrived in France in 2010. He was sentenced in June 2022 to four months suspended prison and five years of entry ban for illegally bringing two Syrians to France. His name also appears – without him having been convicted – in cases of theft, violence, damage to private property or even fraud. In the eyes of the French authorities, he constitutes a “threat to public order”.
“Aberration”
On Wednesday, at the end of the day, the judge finally decided to release him, due to a procedural defect. There are several of them, like him, who have been arrested. In total, since the beginning of the year and according to data collected by The world With the intervention of several associations in the CRA, nearly twenty Palestinian citizens were arrested. According to the Ministry of the Interior, three are still detained. On each occasion, France took steps with the Palestinian consular authorities to identify and expel them. However, none of the persons were returned to Palestine.
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