The Figaro editorial: "Ocean Viking, migration fiasco"

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is becoming a devastating symbol.

The story of this boat and its 234 migrants is the apologue of all the failings of our migration policy.

A Europe incapable first of all of holding its borders, of attacking smugglers, of coordinating the missions of the countries that make it up.

NGOs whose humanitarian concern conceals a political will: to dock in European ports rather than in those of the Maghreb.

A diversion of the notions of welcome and asylum that we invoke to dress up our impotence.

And then, once the boat is in Toulon, the weakness of the state visible to the naked eye when four migrants take advantage of a procedural defect to leave the waiting area, when around twenty minors from Eritrea manage to leave the structure that hosts them and vanish.

Finally, we can wonder about the effective deportation of those whose right to asylum will be rejected.

With regard to the rate of execution of the obligations to leave...

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