to process your asylum application nothing
what you will say about your fears in
your home country will not come out of this
this is the first sentence
that the protection officers of
the French Office for the Protection of
refugees and stateless people that I lead
pronounced when they receive
Fontenay sous bois in the Paris region
more than 200 men and women
every day for an interview so that
we can rule on their
asylum applications
they were in 2015 80000 welcomed to
OFPRA
but for where do these asylum seekers
are not numbers they are
faces these are stories these are
stories of suffering faces and
stories thrown on the roads of
exile from afghanistan since the
Syria from Iraq since Sudan
from erythrea other countries still
they are fleeing wars and
persecution
it’s terrible course that make that
we are immersed every day in
these terrible convulsions of the world is
of a formidable and noble privilege that
we share with the
associations with workers
in social housing
with elected officials with the citizens of this
countries accompanying claimants
asylum
throughout this course but the ofpra
has a mission
somewhere
with no one else who is his exclusivity
who is the ruling on the applications
asylum
when at the end of this journey that
mostly driven from Germany but
also sometimes in France these people
seek the protection of France
on behalf of the right to asylum
we have an obsession we have a
password it is to do everything to not
never miss out on a need to
I see that the protection
satisfaction of his officers from
protection while we had
decided to protect a young
Nigerian held in detention
because victims of a network of
pimps and wanting to disassociate themselves
we were going to be able to protect her but
when an asylum application at the end
an instruction to which each
asylum seeker is entitled do not fall under
no asylum right our
responsibility is to reject this
asks a few weeks ago again
in a lift of the crossing ofpra
one of our colleagues I saw
mark and I worried about it
from her she was coming out of an interview with
a young man from a country in Africa
she had sought in order to be able to
protect and nothing in his record me
said she does not allow it and she had this
sentence this boy at my age I
searched I could not protect him
I will therefore propose to reject his
asylum
because these requests
these decisions of ofpra these are
human decisions
they are men of women who
take but these are decisions in
right we apply as long as we
can the Geneva convention in order to
recognize these men and women
to his little girls to his children
refugee status when their
political commitment
their religious beliefs their
ethnicity their orientation
sexual sometimes driven to no longer
can imagine the return in their
country where they suffered these persecutions
there is in our country
a young Iraqi ahmed arms is frozen
meet the supply teams at
munich in September 2015 at the moment
hundreds of thousands of people
Arrivals in Germany where society
German made this admirable gesture of
welcome them
so many we were on demand
French and German governments
present in munich to welcome
some of these refugees in France
in a vast exhibition hall where
people were coming and going and there
had there ahmad
he was coming around us
hesitantly he came to me a moment
where where I was alone to ask me
if france protect homosexuals
Ahmad is one of us in France
today a refugee and when the
Geneva convention does not apply
so we seek to apply the
subsidiary protection concept and those
who are fleeing wars conflicts
generalized as syria
today or as the essence of the
Afghan territory
or because they are treatments
inhuman or degrading that would wait
these people in their country
and then we can protect them in
application of subsidiary protection
these decisions there are
decisions in law and these are
independent decisions
the ofpra the director general of
the ofpra that I am in whose name these
decisions are made has the right to
receive instructions from anyone
try now in French law
these decisions from ofpra
when the long status on requests
asylum they are taken exclusively
according to asylum considerations
and in no case according to
diplomatic considerations in no
case either according to considerations
migration policy
I feel and I understand to ride the
temptation
faced with the magnitude of the dramas the
temptation to go beyond the law
asylum
but these temptations on is pernicious
and deleterious she would install a
confusion in the right of asylum in fine
and I am convinced would be the victim
because this right of asylum evolves and we
make it evolve in the direction of the
kindness but also rigor
because when the right to asylum
it must prevail
independently of any other form of
consideration
so these decisions that we take
that protection officers from
the ofpra these men these women each
day proposes me
they are taken at the end of a
instruction we want every time
more caring and more rigorous
they start from the possibility
to try shopping like every woman
to express reasons why
he will not be able to return
in his country
first in a written narrative that we
is addressed after the person is
passed in prefecture
in the asylum application and
then during this interview where
the protection officer will have to be
listened to and they went cost of
banners especially to when these
fears are so difficult to verbalized
because we are in the unspeakable
that we can accompanied
the expression of his stories for
women victims of rape for women
victims of domestic violence for
men and women victims of the
torture and who are still suffering from
after-effects for minors who are
alone on the roads of exile
and then it’s based on this
expression any of these fears in case
back in the country of origin that
the protection officer will start
a careful instruction that goes the
lead to exchange with colleagues
with specialized referents with
the lawyers of OFPRA with the
ofpra researchers who establish
an independent analysis of the
situation in the country and c
is at the confluence of this
instruction and these elements that
will be made the decision of the ofpra
a decision you want us
again every time in the
benevolence and rigor
meanwhile we know it’s the
Aunt to the hardness of exile add up
the bitterness of the administrative aunt
because it is up to us to reconcile
the irreconcilable
that time this time of instruction
the asylum application
it is vital for these men these women
and these families and we have to reconcile
this with the administrative time then
to that I know only one answer
the welcome humanity and the rigor the
instruction times are still too much
long we are reducing them since
several months and we will continue
to reduce them because we have to
these men and women and to these
families so we’ve been
increase the number of opera
the ofpra we are 620 today our
workforce increased by 50%
we are reorganized in depth
cards off prat change
ofpra protects more we protect
20 6 % of asylum seekers where he
three years ago they were 9% to be
protected 35% with the judge
the supply is moving goes towards the
asylum seekers in calais since two
years to great synthe in the regions
French in Lebanon in Jordan in
turkey to protect reinstall in
la France
everywhere the frustration remain too much
often present for us in the face of those
who will never get to those
and those who wait too long
in our country still a welcome and a
decision against those whose
we have to reject the request but this
who is carrying us and what will continue to
to wear us
it’s the protection mission because it’s
our mission and this is the title we
are we wearing the officers of
protection
Thank you
[Applause]
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