Boy (8) for 11 days detained at French airport

The child arrived with a flight from the Comoros. Children's rights movements speak shame about the situation but a judge in Paris suggests that the boy, pending the completion of his file may remain in the waiting room.

The child was with his mother on March 21 put on the plane to France. After a flight of 8,000 kilometers all alone he landed in Paris. He would be picked up by his aunt who lives in France but the authorities noted that the African boy traveled with a passport that was not his. He was taken to a waiting room where the boy now stuck for eleven days.

'Trauma'
The human rights organization Le Défenseur speaks shame about the treatment of the child and the lawyer for the boy talks about a traumatic experience. Meanwhile adopt various groups that defend children's rights on him. ,, The detention of children in a waiting room and especially very young children contravenes the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which was ratified by France and signed, '' says Catherine Daoud.

But according to French law, children who are held traveling without valid documents to twinitig days. A court in Paris confirmed that on 25 March and suggested that the authorities Boy ,, in the interests of his own protection '', may hold.

rush
A spokesman for the immigration service will now be looked rushed to the file. He also understood that the boy is in a room with toys. While Thursday is still not clear whether he can stay in France, he is free at any time to return to the Comoros.

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