A friend asked "what do you mean"when I talked about Dublin and fingerprints.
Under the Dublin convention refugees will have their fingerprints taken and should seek asylum in the first European Union country they arrive in. That puts tremendous pressure on countries like Italy and Greece. Many refugees try to move from these countries as those countries with struggling economies just do not have the money, housing or possibility of coping with the numbers arriving. There is also virtually no work living on the streets in these countries. In the past depending on the region in France, refugees have been " de Dublined" the restrictions lifted and France picks up the process of asylum. With our first refugees who arrived in St.Antonin nearly two years ago now, all had the Dublin quashed.
With a change of government( Macron) we now wait to see what direction and how the Dublin convention will be treated. For example many of our 18 young men in Verfeil were fingerprinted in countries other than France.
Yesterday I heard one young men who was fingerprinted in Germany more than a year ago has been told his fingerprints in Germany have been scrapped. If nothing happens in a year the fingerprints are binned. For this young man he can now continue his asylum application here.
