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"Commissioner, thank you for your explanation. It seems to me that this is a very serious problem, because since I asked this question five joint flights – as you call them – have departed from France. They were carrying groups of people of the same nationality leaving under the same conditions, often handcuffed, sometimes gagged, so effectively that two immigrants even died of suffocation. The government has, I might add, decided that from now on there will be a Red Cross doctor on board these so-called joint flights to ensure that everything runs smoothly.
My question then is as follows: what is the difference between a joint flight and a group flight? By definition a group is a number of individuals. When you have 42 Senegalese together, who is going to decide what criterion should be used to determine whether they constitute a group or a number of individuals? I am not aware of a group that is not a number of individuals. But it is my misfortune to believe that when you have 42 Senegalese or 20 Ivorians together – Ivorians, I would point out, whose lives are in danger in their own country – it is more or less the same thing.
So my question is as follows: who determines the difference in meaning between a joint flight and a group flight? Explain to me what a collective expulsion is, that is what is forbidden."@en1
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