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“I gave everything. I have my job and my family here now. I have no future in Guinea.” Cook in a French pizzeria, Mamadou Saliou, an 18-year-old Guinean, is fighting against his expulsion scheduled for June 30.
“I’ve been employed as a cook at L’Antr’Act for almost 9 months as a second chef and there, I received a letter from the prefecture saying that I had to stop working and leave France.”
As he begins to work as a kitchen clerk for a pizzeria located in Besançon, Mamadou Saliou receives a letter from the prefecture forcing him to leave French territory.
“From the 30th, I don’t have the right to work and I have to leave France. I do not know where to go. My family here now is the Antr’Act.”
But for his bosses, who consider him “the best apprentice they could have had”, this decision is totally unfair. “He has a permanent contract, he has a job, he will pay taxes in France.”
“He has been hired for 9 months now, he has a contract, so he contributes in France. The money stayed in France. What are the reasons why today we are asking him to leave the territory?”