A French choose will examine claims introduced by an NGO that the previous head of the European Union border company, Frontex, was complicit in crimes in opposition to humanity, a judicial supply mentioned on Tuesday.
Fabrice Leggeri, a former French civil servant, was incessantly accused of tolerating pushbacks of asylum seekers throughout a seven-year spell as Frontex chief that started in 2015.
The Human Rights League (LDH) filed a criticism in opposition to him in 2024, accusing him of encouraging his workers to facilitate the interception of migrant boats by the Libyan and Greek authorities.
The judicial supply informed AFP a choose would examine after the Paris Court of Appeal dominated final week there have been “grounds to initiate a judicial investigation into the facts as set out in the LDH’s complaint”.
Representatives of Leggeri, now a member of the European Parliament for the far-right National Rally, informed AFP he had not been informed concerning the resolution so had no remark to make.
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Some 34,000 asylum seekers have died or vanished since 2014 whereas crossing the Mediterranean, the deadliest migration route on the earth, in keeping with the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
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“For the first time, one or more French investigating judges will examine the conditions of the possible criminal liability of Fabrice Leggeri in the carnage that has resulted in thousands of deaths in the Mediterranean, particularly children and women,” LDH lawyer Emmanuel Daoud mentioned on Tuesday.
(FRANCE 24 with AFP)
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