Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Release of undocumented Haitians detained at Orly

A few weeks before the first anniversary of the earthquake that killed more than 250 000 deaths in Cuba, Haiti is beset by a cholera epidemic and a severe political instability. / PAUL JEFFREYC'est "great relief" for fifteen Haitians arrived Thursday in France without a visa and placed in a waiting area at the airport of Orly.

The Court of Appeal of Paris ordered, Wednesday, December 29, their release. A total of thirty-two Haitians who arrived the same day in Port-au-Prince, armed with simple transit visas, were all released by the courts. The appellate court upheld the released highlighting guarantees representation of all those people who have family in France.

POSSIBLE "CHAIN OF ILLEGAL MIGRATION" Meanwhile, the Advocate General had called for their continuation in the waiting area. Noting that they were equipped with student visas for Benin, he felt it was "an organized network of illegal emigration" "This is not because the situation is particularly difficult in Haiti ( ...) that its citizens may venture into another country by diverting procedures, "he added.

Arrived Sunday at Roissy, forty-three other Haitians are to be presented from Thursday morning before a judge of freedoms in Bobigny. A few weeks before the first anniversary of the earthquake that killed more than 250,000 dead in the island on January 12, Haiti is beset by a cholera epidemic and a sharp political instability since the presidential and legislative elections of 28 November.

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