Immigration: in the 'inextricable thicket' of asylum

Asylum in France accounted for more than 2022,168 applications in 000, including the first 137,000 applications, the 19,000 reviews and the case of some 12,500 migrants under the Dublin procedure, supposed to be managed in a neighboring European country. The Syrian perpetrator of the Annecy attack was therefore one of many claimants in this uninterrupted flow of foreigners knocking on the French counter. And yet, he had already obtained the precious sesame from the Swedish authorities.

This did not outlaw him in France. He was in a regular situation as long as his demand flourished in the "country of human rights".

A procedure that deserves to be questioned

Beyond this strange profile, it is the asylum procedure as a whole that deserves to be questioned. It has evolved so much over time. An asylum judge recalls the steps: "The Geneva Convention of 1951 was first extended to the whole world by the New York Protocol of 1967, ratified in 1969 by the France." According to him, "on the French side...

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