Asylum in France accounted for more than 2022,168 applications in 000, including the first 137,000 applications, the 19,000 reviews and the case of some 12,500 migrants under the Dublin procedure. The Syrian perpetrator of the Annecy attack was one of many claimants in this uninterrupted flow of foreigners knocking on the French counter.
An asylum judge recalls the steps: "The Geneva Convention of 1951 was first extended to the whole world by the New York Protocol of 1967, ratified in 1969 by the France"