A German national, arrested a week ago in Côte d'Or, was deported to Germany and banned from living in France before the G7 summit in Biarritz. The Interior Ministry has confirmed the expulsion of this European national, targeted since July 18 by an order prohibiting administrative territory. The ministry did not specify the reasons for this order.
Interviewed by the German Radio Dreyeckland, for which he was to go to Biarritz as a reporter, the person accused the Ministry of the Interior of having wanted to remove the "disturbing people" before the G7, which is held from August 24 to 26.
"Investigations are still in progress"
On August 8, "after a roadside check, I was arrested and spent nearly 24 hours in an eviction cell because I was designated as a leftist activist, although at first I was not I did not say the reason for my arrest but just said that it concerned something about the right of residence, "he told Radio Dreyeckland.
"They (the French police, Editor's note) told me that I had been checked a year and a half ago in Bure near the nuclear waste landfill site where for the first time the police had taken my identity but they also said that I was suspected of committing crimes at the Hamburg G20 (in the summer of 2017), but without any conviction: investigations are still ongoing ", he continued.
Drastic security measures for the G7
The day after his arrest, the German national was "embarked on Kehl", a German town on the other side of the Rhine. He said he took a lawyer to challenge his ban on residence, while he has a contract of employment in France.
The authorities have taken drastic security measures for the holding of the G7, which they feel has several threats, including "violent groups".