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French minister backs joint European deportation flights

27 October 2009, 16:47 CET
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(FOLKESTONE) - Forced returns of asylum seekers from Europe should be carried out under a joint European banner, France's immigration minister said Tuesday.

Eric Besson was speaking in Folkestone, southern England, alongside British counterpart Phil Woolas at the inauguration of an information-sharing facility designed to crack down on illegal immigration.

"We think forced returns should be conducted under a European banner," he told a press conference.

But he added that "European cooperation should be much more developed" over the issue.

Human rights groups protested angrily last week after a flight carrying 27 Afghan deportees from Britain and France went back to Kabul.

The British-French migrant charter flight was the first organised jointly by the two countries since 2005.

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