The administrative court of Rouen agreed on Wednesday with the prefect of Seine-Maritime who had refused to grant Armenians established in Ukraine and refugees in France the temporary protection granted to Ukrainian refugees, a judicial source reported Thursday.
“In the state of the investigation” of the file, “none of the means raised (by the defense, editor’s note) is likely to create a serious doubt about the legality of the prefectural decision” dated July 4, since the The plaintiff “does not justify a valid permanent residence permit issued in accordance with Ukrainian law”, considers the administrative court in a decision that AFP was able to consult.
Two women, a mother and her 25-year-old daughter who arrived in Ukraine at the age of 8, where the family has lived for 17 years, according to their lawyer Me Solenn Leprince, are the subject of a similar double decision by the administrative channel. court.
“They see themselves as Ukrainians”
The two women do not have a permanent residence permit in Ukraine but a permit that is renewed every year, the lawyer explained to AFP. The latter could not specify why the two women had not obtained this residence permit with permanent validity after 17 years in Ukraine. Me Leprince has announced a provisional appeal in the next few days.
“They consider themselves Ukrainians and they don’t understand what is going on, why they are treated differently from other Ukrainians. At the beginning of the war, before fleeing, they spent ten days in a basement”, developed the ‘lawyer.
According to her, after the first refusal from the prefecture, “they were expelled overnight” from the accommodation center where they were housed, before being reinstated for the duration of the procedure before the administrative court. “It’s going to be the same there,” she lamented.
Eight Armenians from Ukraine contested the same refusal
Initially, eight Armenians residing in Ukraine and refugees in France, who challenged the denial of temporary protection by the prefect of Seine-Maritime, had obtained in summary proceedings that the prefect grant them a temporary residence permit until their situation was re-examined. .
Of these eight Armenian refugees from Ukraine, including their families, some have gone to Germany, considering that there they can more easily obtain this temporary protection decided at European level after the start of the war in Ukraine than in France. Only these two women had gone through with the procedure, according to Me Leprince.
Source: BFM TV
