Justice requests a delay before the expulsions of the Armenian women, who were passengers in the car.
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The administrative court of Toulouse partially annulled the decisions of the prefect of Ariège who ordered the expulsion of the two Armenian passengers from the car which caused the death of a farmer and her daughter on a dam in Pamiers (Ariège) on Tuesday January 23, France Bleu Occitanie learned this Tuesday.
The two Armenian nationals were released from police custody without charges against them. But under an obligation to leave French territory (OQTF), they were placed in an administrative detention center, then placed under house arrest pending their expulsion.
Justice asks for a delay before evictions
In its decision, the administrative court of Toulouse affirms that the OQTF does not infringe the “rights of the interested parties”, but the magistrate considers that the latter must benefit from a period before this expulsion from French territory. The prefect refused this delay, claiming a “threat to public order”. An “unestablished” threat to justice, not to mention “the schooling of minor children” of one of the two passengers, “a particular circumstance (…) which should have led the prefectural authority to grant a departure period voluntary to the applicants”.
The prefect of Ariège says he has taken note of the court’s decisions and announces that he will notify “two individual decisions setting the period for voluntary departure at 30 days, the minimum set by law. At the end of this period, the prefect of Ariège “Ariège will authoritatively implement the necessary procedures for their removal, the courts having confirmed that they no longer have the right to remain on French territory.”
As for the driver of the car which caused this fatal accident at the end of February, he has been in pre-trial detention, awaiting trial, since his indictment on Wednesday January 24, for “aggravated involuntary homicide, aggravated injury and driving without insurance”.