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French minister vows to increase capacity of migrant detentioncentres

12 October 2024
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2024-10-12 11:19

French Interior Minister declared "a plan to provide 3,000 places in the administrative detention centres", during a visit to the Mesnil-Amelot administrative detention centre , one of the 25 French establishments where migrants, subject to a removal order, wait to be sent back or released. The minister added that the period of detention in these centres would be extended from 90 to ‘210 days’.

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