In Nice, Christophe Wilson, owner of the restaurant Le Poppies, located in the city center of the City of Angels, found himself in police custody on Wednesday after having braved health restrictions by opening his restaurant.
The initiative, launched during the midday time, generated around fifty reservations and around a hundred customers were able to take advantage of the lunch break to eat.
The police intervened in the evening to verbalize the business manager and finally arrested him, after realizing that he was employing an irregular cook.
The latter was placed in an administrative detention center (CRA).
Released this Thursday, the man, of Ivorian nationality and aged 34, was issued an obligation to leave French territory (OQTF),
Le Figaro
learned
from a source close to the case.
The man now has 30 days to leave the national territory, to which he will not be able to return for two years, according to our information.
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In a statement published Thursday evening, the departmental union of the CGT des Alpes-Maritimes was indignant at the situation, "
condemning the fact that a worker finds himself imprisoned in a detention center, while he was on his workplace
”.
“
The CGT has been alerting the services of the prefecture for years to the situation of employees without a residence permit.
These workers are used, especially in the catering industry, by unscrupulous employers taking advantage of their vulnerable situation
, ”she lamented, calling for the“
regularization
”of these workers on“
the simple proof of the employment relationship.
".
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As for Christophe Wilson, his custody was to be lifted Thursday evening, according to the Nice prosecutor's office.
“
We are going to lift police custody.
The accused will be summoned before a delegate of the prosecutor for a reminder of the law for recourse to an untitled foreigner
, ”the public prosecutor Xavier Bonhomme told AFP.
