The Frenchman was pressured by reports of human rights violations at the EU’s external border.
The head of EU border protection agency Frontex, Fabrice Leggeri, has offered to resign. The agency’s board of directors wanted to deal with it on Friday, the AFP news agency learned from circles familiar with the case.
Frenchman Leggeri was under pressure due to reports of human rights violations by Frontex at the EU’s external borders: between March 2020 and September 2021 alone, the European border protection agency Frontex demonstrably captured a total of 957 refugees on boats along the way. off the Greek coast. coast and illegally returned them to Turkish waters exposed, comes from a joint research by the German “Spiegel”, the Swiss media SRF and the Republic and the French newspaper Le Monde.
Therefore Frontex maintains a detailed database of its own operations. Accordingly, only 22 cases of so-called illegal pushbacks can be attributed to entries in this database.
But EU border guards apparently embellished their records massively: each of these seizures was recorded as if the refugees had been discovered directly in Turkish waters – each of the operations was touted as “preventing the exit” from Turkey.
(PA/red.)