The rape in Angers, on August 31, of a young woman aroused emotion, anger and incomprehension.
Emotion because of the exceptional gravity of the facts.
Anger because his alleged attacker, arrested the next day, was a foreign national convicted on multiple occasions.
Misunderstanding because the person concerned was under two bans from French territory pronounced for a period of five years, but remained a dead letter.
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Many commentators underlined on this occasion that it is not enough for a foreign national to be the subject of a judicial or administrative decision to expel from the territory for such a measure to be implemented.
In this particular case, the person who was born in Yugoslavia before the fall of the Iron Curtain had, when the administration tried to force him to leave France, declared to be of Kosovar nationality, but Kosovo did not recognize him as one of its nationals.
According to the prefecture of Maine-et-Loire,
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