A former official of the Bouches-du-Rhône prefecture, who
“sorted out the situation”
of certain asylum seekers, was sentenced Monday to three years in prison, including 18 months suspended, and to a fine of 15,000 euros for corruption and aiding illegal stay.
One of her colleagues at the one-stop shop for asylum applications was given 18 months in prison, 14 of which were suspended, for three interventions that she had admitted to.
The two agents, who were removed, are also permanently banned from holding public office.
The court sentenced the asylum seekers, mainly Turkish, to sentences ranging from two to six months in prison, who had resorted to Abdalla Ibrahim, the corrupt official who did not fail to "exert pressure
to obtain the payment”
for his services, noted the court.
The agent would have intervened in 45 cases
The judges highlighted
“the context of precariousness of the applicants”
for not pronouncing the prison sentences required by the prosecution against these beneficiaries of the fraud.
At the hearing in December, Abdalla Ibrahim, a 55-year-old Franco-Syrian, admitted to having received 9,000 euros,
“either by doing something or by making people believe that I was doing something”
.
According to the prosecution, he intervened in 45 situations, causing applicants to escape the
"Dublin"
ax , a procedure consisting of returning the examination of an asylum application to the country where the foreigner was registered upon entry into the country. European territory.
By benefiting from a traditional asylum application, foreigners obtained a certificate authorizing a regular temporary stay while the file was examined.
To achieve this, Abdalla Ibrahim did not record the applicant's fingerprints in the Eurodac database where they were already present, or caused a positive response to disappear from Visabio, the system for processing visas granted by European countries.
Abdalla Ibrahim was in very frequent contact with Filis Tunc, president of the association
“The House of the Kurdish People”
, who, according to the court, had
“established a real collaboration with the official”
.
The court sentenced her to 16 months in prison to be served under electronic monitoring and a fine of 5,000 euros.