Toulouse: justice orders the deportation of a family with children to Ukraine … then retracts
On February 28, a Ukrainian family was ordered to return to Ukraine… but the Haute-Garonne prefecture reconsidered its position due to the escalation of the war.
As more than 2 million Ukrainians flee the war in their country and as France prepares to welcome up to 100,000 refugees in the coming weeks, a Ukrainian family with their two children, residing near Toulouse, narrowly missed to be accompanied under the Russian bombs.
Wednesday, March 9, 2022, the chained duck revealed that Anton, 36, his wife and two children fled the early hours of the conflict in Ukraine in 2014. The couple are deaf and left the Luhansk region of Dombass because they could no longer hear the warning sirens.
The family fled the conflict 200 kilometers from Kiev, in Vinnytsia, to the family of the young woman. But the latter does not want a genre that comes from a pro-Russian region, and it is therefore in France that the couple goes into exile with their children.
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The decision fell on February 28
Their asylum application was refused. In the meantime, the couple gives birth to a baby boy. And unfortunately, a request for expulsion is made by the prefecture of Haute-Garonne.
The decree was first suspended by the administrative court of Toulouse, but the prefecture decided to appeal. Justice finally decides via the Administrative Court of Appeal of Bordeaux on February 28, 2022: Anton and his whole family must return to Ukraine.
A judgment that falls very badly, since it has now been two weeks since the country is in the grip of a murderous invasion by the Russian army. Vinnystia airport was also hit by bombings.
The prefecture backtracks
Faced with this situation, the Haute-Garonne prefecture finally gave up sending this family back to Ukraine, relates France 3. The administrative court of appeal, Brigitte Phémolant, presented herself to AFP, explaining that the hearing had been held a month before the start of the war and that “the role of the judge was to say whether the prefect’s decision was legal in August 2021, when the irregular situation of Mr. was noted”.
A new asylum application should be filed, according to the Ukrainian family’s lawyer.