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Age of young migrants: Benbassa of Europe Ecology the Greens wants to ban bone tests

2020-12-14T20:40:34.178Z


Senator EELV and vice-president of the environmental group, Esther Benbassa, tabled Monday, December 14 a bill aimed at banning the use of radiological bone examinations " with the aim of challenging the minority of a young migrant ". Read also: The Constitutional Council validates bone examinations for young migrants The text, co-signed by all the members of the environmental group in the Senat


Senator EELV and vice-president of the environmental group, Esther Benbassa, tabled Monday, December 14 a bill aimed at banning the use of radiological bone examinations "

with the aim of challenging the minority of a young migrant

".

Read also: The Constitutional Council validates bone examinations for young migrants

The text, co-signed by all the members of the environmental group in the Senate, proposes “

to opt as in England for a so-called '' holistic '' method, which determines age from assessments at the cognitive level, behavioral, emotional, social, medical, academic, etc.

», Indicates the senator of Paris in a press release.

As International Migrants Day approaches on December 18, Benbassa relaunches the delicate issue of unaccompanied minors (unaccompanied minors), supported by Social Assistance for Children (ASE).

In case of doubt about the age, the judge can be called upon to perform bone tests, a controversial process whose recourse was limited by a 2016 law.

For Benbassa, “

these radiological tests are problematic in many ways.

In particular when the result is inconclusive, these young migrants are excluded from the social assistance system for children and are generally subsequently subject to an Obligation to leave French territory (OQTF) or are thrown away. the street

”.

It raises the problem of the reliability of these tests, "

with a margin of error of between 1 and 2 years

", as well as a legal question, "

because the bone test infringes the constitutional principle of the best interests of child, arising from the 1989 International Convention on the Rights of the Child, ratified by France

”.

During the examination in the Senate at the end of November of the appropriations of the mission "

Solidarity, integration and equal opportunities

", the Secretary of State, Adrien Taquet, indicated that "

the flows of young migrants decreased very significantly in 2020, in a context of health crisis and border closures

”.

To date, there are 8,437 young people recognized as minors in 2020, compared to 40,000 requests for assessment and 17,000 recognitions of minorities in 2018

”, the year of the “

peak in arrivals

”, he said.

Source: lefigaro

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