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The French Government, together with the German Government, has just recommenced group expulsions by charter of immigrants from outside the Community. The shocking conditions of these expulsions, however, which have led to death in transit, have been brought to light, not to mention imprisonment in the destination countries.
It is against this backdrop that the European Parliament has been presented with a draft Council directive aiming to harmonise and regulate assistance, within the framework of repatriation with or without an escort, in transit airports within the European Union. The report which has been proposed to validate this codification of expulsions is, however, particularly hypocritical. It does not say a word about the fact that collective expulsions are prohibited by the European Convention on Human Rights and by the Charter on Fundamental Rights, thus assuming that the national police services respect the individual rights of immigrants. It also reiterates that the sovereign rights of the Member States – in particular with regard to the use of direct force against unlawfully resident third country nationals resisting removal – are to remain unaffected. For all these reasons, we voted against this resolution and we shall continue to support all those who want to put an end to these expulsions."@en1
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