Asked this Tuesday in the National Assembly about the fate of the 234 migrants rescued on board the “
Ocean Viking
”, the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin affirmed that a “
plane left
” with several of them at its edge.
According to information from BFMTV, confirmed to
Le Figaro
by Beauvau, these are two Malians who took a flight on Tuesday to Bamako
They are the first migrants from the “
Ocean Viking
” to be escorted back to their country of origin.
Since the boat rescued by SOS Méditerranée and its 234 had landed on November 11 in Toulon, after Italy's refusal to open its ports, almost all of them had been released for various reasons.
44 unaccompanied minors, because the law prohibits them from being held in a detention centre.
66 others, because they have received authorization to enter the territory to seek asylum.
Of the 123 who had been refused entry to the territory, a hundred nevertheless left the waiting area by court order.
In the waiting area of the peninsula of Giens where they had been transferred, there were therefore less than ten left since Saturday, according to a source at the Ministry of the Interior.
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Faced with this fiasco, the executive is trying to justify itself.
Unsurprisingly, the subject came up several times in the hemicycle on Tuesday, during the session of questions to the government.
"
The countries of departure must be made responsible by conditioning development aid
", declared Gérald Darmanin in particular, attacked by the deputies RN and LR.
According to
Var Matin
, some of the 18 minors still cared for by departmental services were taken to another department.
The rest of the group should leave in a few days.