Migrants living at Paul Sabatier University once again threatened with expulsion
The administrative court of Toulouse examined Wednesday, December 28, 2022 the request for interim relief from Paul Sabatier University for the expulsion of a hundred refugee minors living in a building on the campus. The migrants’ lawyers denounce an “illegal hearing”.
The migrants settled in Paul Sabatier were soon to be settled on their fate. On Wednesday, December 28, the administrative court examined the request for interim relief from the Toulouse University for the expulsion of these young people. Because since December 15, 3 months after their expulsion from the Jules Guesde alleys, a hundred young migrants (probably minors) occupying a “empty building” of the Toulouse III – Paul Sabatier University campus, which is owned by the State.
On December 22, Paul Sabatier University requests the administrative court of Toulouse to “that the expulsion be pronounced within 48 hours“. The judge in chambers then sets a hearing. But according to the lawyers for the young migrants, the latter would not have been informed until Monday, December 26, that is “less than 48 hours before the hearing“.
They then decide to ask for a report of hearing. “We immediately brought a request for dismissal to court so that we could have the time necessary to prepare their defense under normal conditions. Without delay, the court opposed itthey declare. According to article R711-2 of the code of administrative justice,IThe warning is given at least seven days before the hearing. However, in an emergency, this period may be reduced to two days“. According to the migrants’ lawyers, the latter were only notified 48 hours before the start of the hearing.
Me Fanny sarasqueta, me Benjamin Francos and Me Fiano Zemihi, the migrants’ lawyers, justify this request for dismissal”in view of the many violations of rights of which the court was in the process of being guilty“.
By pronouncing thus, the judge in chambers of the court decided to judge the expulsion of these young people in all illegality and to the detriment of the most rudimentary rights of defence.
Benjamin Francos and Fiona Zemihi, migrant lawyers
For its part, the Paul Sabatier University did not answer our questions at the time of publication of this article.
These refugees, originally from Africa, arrived in France last spring. They had settled in the former EHPAD des Tourelles before being expelled. They then pitched their tents on the Jules Guesde alleys and suffered the same fate. These young people are waiting for the recognition of their minority by the juvenile judge.