US EditionEx-EU border chief faces French investigation for crimes against humanity
The investigation follows NGO complaints that Leggeri allowed Frontex to facilitate migrant interceptions by Libyan and Greek authorities, linked to thousands of deaths in the Mediterranean.
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Under Fabrice Leggeri, Europe has pushed back many refugees on the high seas. Now, the French judiciary is investigating the suspicions of crimes against humanity and torture.
Ex-EU border chief faces French investigation for crimes against humanity
The Paris Court of Appeal opened an investigation into the former head of the EU Border agency on March 24 for potentially participating in crimes against humanity. The former border chief, Fabrice Leggeri resigned in 2022 following allegations of mistreatment of migrants at EU borders. Now a lawmaker for France's far-right National Rally party, he denies the allegations.
Why former Frontex chief Fabrice Leggeri is under investigation for complicity in crimes against humanity
Fabrice Leggeri, now an MEP for the far-right Rassemblement National, is accused by several nonprofits of having facilitated or covered up, during his tenure, the pushback of migrant boats by Greek authorities to Turkey, as well as the interception of vessels by Libyan coast guards attempting to reach Italy.
French judge probes ex-EU border chief over claims of crimes against humanity
A French judge will investigate claims brought by an NGO that the former head of the European Union border agency, Frontex, was complicit in crimes against humanity, a judicial source has said.
The Norwegian police have just arrested the founder of the association for the defence of migrants' rights in the Aegean Sea, Aegean Boat Report. Article Europe fortress: death record in the Mediterranean, repression of human rights defenders, Leggeri accused of crimes against humanity appeared first on Against Attack.
One more step towards the "government of judges", or at least a judicialization of political and administrative life heavy with consequence. The League of Human Rights (LDH) obtained on Tuesday that a judge will soon be seized to investigate Fabrice Leggeri, former director of Frontex, the European body responsible for controlling external borders and in particular to hunt smugglers in the Mediterranean.
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