Viking of the ocean. “almost all” migrants still in the waiting area are free to leave

The Court of Appeal of Aix-en-Provence certified on Friday, November 18, “almost all or all» of the 108 survivors of the humanitarian ship an ocean viking whose cases have been appealed by the prosecutor’s office, he told AFP.

Of the 234 migrants who disembarked from the SOS Méditerranée association ship in Toulon last week, 123 remained at a recreation center where they were accommodated on the Giens peninsula in Jerez, according to the latest report from the Var prefecture.

Fifteen people in the waiting room

15 of them were held by the Toulon court in this waiting room. The other 108 were awaiting a decision from the Aix-en-Provence appeals court, which reviewed their cases on Wednesday and Thursday.

For these 108 people, the Toulon liberties and detention judges decided to refuse on Tuesday evening, not having time to examine their cases within 24 hours. Therefore, the migrants were theoretically free, but the Toulon prosecutor’s office appealed these decisions, forcing them to remain in the waiting room until the court’s decision. “There was a very strong mobilization of the Court of Appeal to respond within the deadline48 hours, Friday told AFP Renaud Le Breton de Vanoise, first president of the Aix-en-Provence Court of Appeal.

In the end, these 108 cases were processed on time and the court confirmed.almost all or all» decisions made by the first instance allowing the migrants concerned to leave the waiting room if they so wish. remains “ten files“At the Court of Appeal, according to the first president, cases that correspond to other challenges to the decisions of the first instance, in particular, from migrants whose liberties and detention judge had assessed that they should remain in the waiting room.

Sixty migrants have already been redirected

Overall, the majority of survivorsan ocean viking so he got the right to leave the waiting room. Sixty of the 234 migrants who had already received the right to request asylum were redirected to other facilities.

Another 44 were recognized as minors and placed in receptions provided by the Department of Education. 26 of them had already left on Thursday evening, the board of the department announced. Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin announced on Monday that he wants to deport at least 44 of the migrants whose asylum requests have already been rejected. These migrants are among the 123 still in Giens.