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High school student and future father threatened with expulsion: Montreuil’s elected officials mobilize

Elected officials and activists mobilized, Tuesday, June 9, 2020, to demand the release of a young high school student from Montreuil (Seine-Saint-Denis) threatened with expulsion.

Published on June 9, 20 at 18:16

Elected officials and activists mobilized on Tuesday, June 9, 2020, to demand the release of a young high school student from Montreuil (Seine-Saint-Denis) threatened with expulsion. (© Halima Menhoudj)

For almost two weeks, he has been placed in the Vincennes (Val-de-Marne) detention center. Tuesday June 9, 2020, several deputies, elected officials and activists of Montreuil (Seine-Saint-Denis) gathered in front of the administrative detention center of Vincennes (Val-de-Marne) to request the release of Fadil Fifen Njoya, threatened with expulsion.

We are several deputies, elected officials and activists from Montreuil with RESF to request the release of Fadil…

Posted by Halima Menhoudj on Tuesday June 9, 2020

High school student and future father

Young Cameroonian 19 years old Arrived in France shortly before his 16 years he was arrested in Paris where he resides. Two days later, on May 30, he was placed in a detention center. Gold Fadil Fifen Njoya is currently schooled in Montreuil and in a few months, his partner will give birth to their first child. A situation, denounced on Monday June 8, 2020, by the elected officials of the municipal majority of Montreuil.

“Faced with these inhuman and unworthy actions in a country like ours, claiming human rights, the elected representatives of the majority in Montreuil demand the immediate release of Fadil Fifen Njoya as well as the issuance of papers which will allow him to continue his studies and to live in France with his partner and his child ”.

“A serious student”

A high school student at the horticultural college of Montreuil, Fadil Fifen Njoya is presented as “a serious student and involved in his studies”. He was about to sign an apprenticeship contract in his training. According to Education Without Borders Network, his teachers are writing letters of support.

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“The situation of Fadil Fifen Njoya highlights once again the difficulties encountered in obtaining an appointment in the Seine-Saint-Denis prefecture for regularization procedures since the digitization of services,” say elected officials of Montreuil.

Fadil Fifen Njoya received a obligation to leave French territory as well as a three-year ban on returning to France. The liberty judge and the administrative court kept him in detention.

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