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Mathieu Bock-Côté: "Indefinite extension of the field of asylum?"

2021-01-15T20:23:00.596Z


FIGAROVOX / CHRONIQUE - If the climate crisis is very real, its ideological instrumentalization is just as much.


We learned a few days ago that, on December 18, an administrative court of appeal granted the status of refugee in a roundabout way to a Bangladeshi asylum seeker on a climatic basis.

While he first sought to settle in France as a political refugee, it was then by arguing about his state of health that he avoided deportation.

In their judgment, the magistrates explained that the pollution was such in his country that he could not return there without compromising his health.

Especially since the care system found there would not be up to the follow-up that his asthma would require.

It would be wrong not to pay enough attention to it.

Beyond the particular case of this man, it is the role of the courts which remains the central political fact of this story.

Once again, they allow themselves to interpret the law in such a way to the point of pouring without the slightest embarrassment into legal activism, replacing the political when it comes time to define major

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Source: lefigaro

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