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Covid-19: these French people living abroad who attack the state

2021-02-05T17:55:17.431Z


Expatriates outside the European Union, they seek to return to mainland France. But entry into the territory is prohibited without "compelling reason".


There is this young woman about to give birth, stranded in Peru.

This sexagenarian who wants to go

"to spend (s) at the end of life with (s) an American boyfriend".

Or this dad who has not yet discovered his son, born last October in Indonesia.

Thousands of French expatriates outside the European Union seek to return to France, while the government has decided, since January 31, to prohibit them from entering and leaving the country, without

"compelling reasons"

.

Seven of them, residing in the United States, have just applied to the Council of State.

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The application for interim suspension, filed by Me Pierre Ciric, lawyer in New York, and six elected representatives of French people living abroad located in the United States, maintains that the contested decree endangers the fundamental

“general and absolute” right

of return on the territory.

"If the law can restrict, in a manner strictly proportionate to the health risks incurred and appropriate to the circumstances of time and place, the right to come and go on the

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Source: lefigaro

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