The French authorities informed this Friday that more than half of the minors who disembarked from the Ocean Viking migrant rescue ship last week fled migrant reception centers.
The Var regional council in southern France said in a statement that 26 of the 44 unaccompanied young migrants had escaped from reception facilities.
The official of that French regional department, Jean-Louis Masson, added that three minors they left the centers the day after their arrivalon November 11, the other 23 having left in the following days.
Meanwhile, French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said this week that 44 of the total 234 migrants will face deportation proceedings.as soon as your health allowswhile others run the same risk of being deported.
Darmanin authorized, subject to reservations, the maritime rescue ship to dock in the city of Toulon, in southern France, after a dispute over his fate threatened the efforts of the European Union (EU) so that several countries could share among themselves the reception of asylum seekers.
The French reception to Ocean Viking drew vehement criticism from the far-right opposition to the government.
France wants to return 44 of the 234 rescued by Ocean Viking to their countries
Migrant rights advocates expressed relief at this Paris resolution, but lamented that it took several weeks. to find a shelter for the shipsince Italy refused to let him dock.
The Ocean Viking disembarked the migrants at the port of Toulon, with citizens from Eritrea, Egypt, Syria, Bangladesh, Pakistan and other nations, including 44 unaccompanied minors and children as young as three.
Source: Observadora
