Following an appointment at the Côte-d’Or prefecture this Friday, January 22, Ibrahima Barry, a young Guinean apprenticing in a bakery in Dijon, learned that he would be able to stay in France for at least six months, the time examining their application for a residence permit.
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Good news for young Ibrahima Barry. This Guinean, who will be 18 in February, will be able to stay in France at least until next August. This is what he learned after an appointment at the prefecture of the Côte-d’Or this Friday, January 22.
“He told me that the prefecture had accepted that he submit his file, his boss, the baker Frédéric Tarride, told us. He has a certificate, so he will be able to continue working at my place for a period of at least six months, pending validation of his residence permit. It allows him to finish his training, to pass his CAP. “
The young man was threatened with expulsion once he reached majority. This is obviously a relief for him and for his apprenticeship master. “We will be able to continue working together. We wanted him to do a second CAP behind, in pastry. So for us it’s a big relief”, he explained to us over the phone.
He was very moved. He understood that it was largely thanks to the media coverage of his case that it happened. He realized that if it hadn’t been for that, it would have been much more complicated.
“SHe is going well, by the end of the summer he will have his first residence permit. But nothing is taken for granted. We told him, we must not do anything stupid, we must continue to work, he continued. We must continue to be serious because it is not a given, but it is on the right track anyway. “
“I’m not alone in my case”
Despite everything, the craftsman regrets having had to go through the media to advance his apprentice’s file. “It’s a shame to have to go through this. There is surely a way to work differently with the prefectures, because I am not alone in my case “, he confided.
Invited on the set of 19/20 of France 3 Bourgogne on January 21, the prefect of the Côte-d’Or Fabien Sudry recalled the process followed by requests like those of Ibrahima. “The prefectural services do a very thorough job of examining application files. What must be understood is that we are there to apply the laws of our country”, he said without commenting specifically on the file of the young Guinean. “There are considerations that can be humanitarian, with an in-depth examination of situations. And so I sometimes have to decide certain cases.”
A few days ago, a similar story in Besançon made national headlines. Stéphane Ravacley, the boss of Laye Fodé Traore, also a bakery apprentice from Guinea, went so far as to go on hunger strike to prevent his departure. After ten days of action, the Haute-Saône prefecture had decided to repeal the young apprentice’s obligation to leave French territory.
Since then, Stéphane Ravacley launched a Facebook page called “Patrons Solidaires” on which he invites all those who have migrants in apprenticeship to contact him. “Whatever the profession, come to us, we will make you visible”, The bisontin baker explains there in a video published on January 17.
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