Four years of imprisonment with a committal warrant and a fine of 20,000 euros were requested on Monday in Marseille against a former administrative agent of the foreigners service of the Bouches-du-Rhône prefecture who “arranged the situation” of applicants for asylum, mainly Turks.
Against a colleague from her one-stop asylum service, who admitted three interventions, the prosecution demanded two years’ imprisonment, including eight months suspended, the firm part being to be carried out at home under electronic surveillance, as well as a fine of 5,000 euros. Against these two former civil servants, now disbarred, the prosecutor also requested a definitive ban on exercising any public function.
The ax of the “Dublin Regulation”
Tried since Wednesday alongside eight intermediaries and a beneficiary, for corruption and aiding illegal stay, Abdalla Ibrahim, a 55-year-old Franco-Syrian, admitted during the proceedings to having received 9,000 euros and benefiting from free work at his home for to avoid for certain asylum seekers the ax of the “Dublin regulation” which refers the analysis of an asylum request to the first European country of entry.
Abdalla Ibrahim, who would have intervened in at least 45 situations, according to the prosecution, offered the applicant the possibility of an examination of his file by the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons, with the issuance of a temporary residence authorization regular. The “arranged” file cost around 1,000 euros per applicant. The defendant maintained close ties with Filis Tunuc, president of the association “La Maison du peuple kurde” in Marseille. Investigators noted 432 telephone contacts between them, which reflects, according to the prosecutor, “a desire to ensure a channel that would be reserved for him”.
A lack of administrative control
Against this woman, a sentence of two years’ imprisonment, including one year with suspended probation, was requested, as well as the total revocation of the suspension of her three-year prison sentence from January 2015 by the Paris Court of Appeal for terrorist conspiracy aimed at financing the PKK. A total of four years of imprisonment for Filis Tunuc, against whom the magistrate requested a committal warrant and a fine of 15,000 euros.
The sentences required against the other defendants range from one year of suspended imprisonment to 18 months, including one year, to be served under an electronic bracelet. In his indictment, the prosecutor highlighted the lack of control of the administration, whose department heads were overwhelmed. It was therefore enough for the official preparing the files to “forget” to check the European Visabio or Eurodac files which respectively list the visas already issued by another country or the fingerprints of an applicant already checked. The judgment will be delivered on February 12.