For the French state, he had worked too much.
After being refused his application for naturalization in 2020, a resident of Reims finally obtained French nationality on Monday, May 3, reports France Bleu.
Mohamed, an Algerian in France for 13 years, had been refused his nationality application by the State services because he had exceeded the legal quota of working hours in 2018. That year, he had multiplied the number of contracts as a security guard in Reims and exceeded 151 working hours per month.
"I have always believed in justice in France"
According to the local radio station, he had several permanent and fixed-term contracts in three companies in the department.
"I thought I was doing well, I wanted to work and pay my taxes…" he said last December.
Today, he confides his joy and his relief.
"I have always believed in justice in France, that's what gave me the strength not to give up," he says, he who is now employed by the court of justice in Reims.
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On December 15, Marlène Schiappa, the Minister Delegate to the Minister of the Interior, was "moved" by the fate of this 36-year-old father, after the broadcast of a report on France 2. "Faithful to my philosophy - naturalizing foreign people who worked on the front line during the Covid-19 pandemic - I asked the administration to re-examine this file.
A positive response will be given to this gentleman!
She wrote on Twitter.
True to my philosophy - naturalizing foreign people who worked on the front line during the # COVID19 pandemic - I asked the administration to re-examine this file.
A positive response will be given to this gentleman!
https://t.co/BrPrCS7EHg
- 🇫🇷 MarleneSchiappa (@MarleneSchiappa) December 15, 2020
Mohamed's lawyer, Maître Simon Miravete, said he had received other testimonies from people in the same situation. He intends to continue to mobilize on this issue. “How dare today to say to someone: you do not deserve to have French nationality because you work too much […]. I intend to go to the Ministry of the Interior which decides on these requests and to the President of the Republic to ask him if this kind of refusal is part of normal conditions or on the contrary if it is a question of answers. completely abnormal administration, ”he told France Bleu.
