The Guinean apprentice baker from Besançon has been regularized

Stéphane Ravacley, the baker from Besançon on hunger strike for more than a week to protest against the expulsion of his Guinean apprentice, assured Thursday, January 14 that the young man's situation had been regularized, after a meeting at the prefecture of Haute-Saône.

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Contacted, the Haute-Saônoise prefecture was not reachable in the early afternoon.

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», Assured Stéphane Ravacley, reached by phone after an interview with the secretary general of the prefecture.

Stéphane Ravacley and Laye Fodé Traoré, an 18-year-old Guinean subject to an obligation to leave French territory (OQTF), were received Thursday in the prefecture of Haute-Saône.

At the announcement of his regularization, the young man "

", confided his apprentice master.

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” added Stéphane Ravacley.

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Which are in the same case elsewhere in France, he added.

Supported in France as an isolated minor, Laye Fodé Traoré did not obtain a residence permit when he reached majority.

The prefecture considered until now that the identity documents of the young man were not authentic.

But their recent validation by the Guinean embassy, ​​which “

”, and the mobilization in favor of Laye Fodé Traoré led the prefecture to review its position, according to Stéphane Ravacley.

The petition in favor of the young baker, launched by Stéphane Ravacley, had collected more than 220,000 signatures on Tuesday.

The baker, on hunger strike for 10 days, was taken to the emergency room Tuesday after feeling unwell.

He announced that he was going to resume eating normally.

Personalities from the political, trade union, artistic or literary world, in particular, called on French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday to "

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