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Adama Djikine fights to annul OQTF decision on attempted rape charges – The Public Good

Adama Djikine has lived in France for 11 years. Tuesday, May 16, he appeared at the administrative court to annul the decision of an OQTF from the prefecture. An injunction which is accompanied by a ban on returning to French soil for three years and a house arrest in response to police custody for attempted rape which he carried out on May 11.

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Yesterday at 7:00 p.m. | updated yesterday at 19:19

Referrals relating to the OQTF (obligation to leave French territory) issued by the prefecture are commonplace at the administrative court of Dijon. That a support committee meets spontaneously in 48 hours to come and support the person who risks expulsion is less so.

Fifteen people came to support him

On May 16, Adama Djikine could thus count on his friends, his family, members of associations, members of the teaching team of the Saint-Joseph high school where he was trained or his masters of learning.

A mobilization of about fifteen people which testifies to the local roots of this young Malian of 26 years, present on French soil for eleven years. Under an OQTF, the latter is accompanied by a ban on returning to French soil. It is a police custody, carried out on May 11, in the context of an attempted rape – a case for which Adama Djikine remains presumed innocent – which motivated the prefecture of Côte-d’Or to take this decision. From this case, we could not obtain any information.

If Enora Ruckstuhl, who represented the prefecture, indicated during the hearing “to estimate and appreciate that he represents a danger to public order”, Adama Djikine’s lawyer, Maître Ingrid Jolet, assured that his client was “not the subject of an indictment” and that she had “not been seized by a parallel procedure”.

As for his supporters, Steve Clément, a friend of Adama, retains “full” support for the young Malian. “I asked myself a lot of questions, but after the hearing, I called him and he assured me that he had done nothing,” he notes. It was he who asked The Public Good to warn us that a mobilization was taking place for Adama.

Intact supports

Paul Garrigues, a volunteer with SOS Refoulement and the Human Rights League, regularly observes situations where “young people arrive in France, train and have to leave”. “If someone is accused without further action, we cannot make him pay for that,” he assured us when he left the court.

Philippe Butet, former French teacher of Adama Djikine, who was present on the day of the hearing, continues to support the young man. He took him into his home during the weekends, when the student could not stay at the boarding school. In addition to a “hyper invested” student with “the desire to get out of it”, it is a “member of the family” that he found in Adama, who has become the Republican godfather of the professor’s son.

Before the president of the administrative court, Adama Djikine insisted on speaking, on the one hand, to maintain that he was innocent (about the complaint for attempted rape, editor’s note) and, on the other hand, to reaffirm his desire to integrate “with the values ​​of France”, indicating “to live like a Frenchman”. His lawyer also recalled that there was “no conviction” on his client’s record.

The request rejected by the administrative court

At the end of the hearing, Adama returned to his journey. “I arrived in Dijon in 2012, with the Red Cross. When I was 16 I was entrusted to the ASE (Childhood social assistance) and I joined the Lycée Antoine in a reception class. Then I did my CAP in building maintenance at Saint-Joseph, which I got in 2016,” he explains. Then, he plans to continue by moving towards a professional baccalaureate. But in 2016, the first OQTF falls. “Mentally, it was too hard,” he recalls.

At Les Marcs d’Or high school, he obtained a second CAP, in carpentry this time. Then does odd jobs on construction sites. This Tuesday morning, he appeared in court with a promise of employment. This will not have been enough since Adama Djikine’s request was rejected by the administrative court, in particular because the evidence provided by the applicant does not attest “to a significant integration into French society” and that the seniority of the stay results that he evaded “the execution of removal measures taken against him on September 27, 2016 and April 30, 2018”. A decision which is “not really a surprise” for Adama Djikine, who however intends to appeal this decision in order to have more time to provide “more evidence”.

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