Highlights: Sudanese mother, refugee in France, had taken legal action after the passport of her two daughters, blocked in their country. Passports destroyed in France embassy in Sudan: 'the only solution, use smugglers' Council of State, the highest French administrative court, ruled: the mother, who requested that a consular officer or an NGO could cross the border to hand deliver travel documents, was rejected. She is therefore now destitute, as explained by her lawyer, Me Héloïse Cabot, joined by RFI.

This is the end of a legal drama that RFI has already told you about: a Sudanese mother, refugee in France, had taken legal action after the passport of her two daughters, blocked in their country...

Passports destroyed in France embassy in Sudan: 'the only solution, use smugglers'

This is the end of a legal drama that RFI has already told you about: a Sudanese mother, a refugee in France, had taken legal action after the passports of her two daughters, stranded in their country at war, had been destroyed during the evacuation of the embassy in France.

A convoy leaving Khartoum advances on a road to Port Sudan, April 23, 2023, as people flee the fighting-torn Sudanese capital. AFP - ABUBAKARR JALLOH

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The judiciary had initially ordered the government to issue the children passes to allow them to cross into Egypt and join their mothers, but nothing had been done to issue these passes to Sudan. This Thursday, July 13, the Council of State, the highest French administrative court, ruled: the mother, who requested that a consular officer or an NGO could cross the border to hand deliver travel documents, was rejected her request.

She is therefore now destitute, as explained by her lawyer, Me Héloïse Cabot, joined by RFI: "She still had hopes of an intervention of the French state to compensate for the deficiencies and the destruction of her daughters' passports by the embassy. It is therefore completely helpless and helpless in the face of this situation. We are extremely disappointed because, in reality, we are faced with a desire on the part of the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs - which is not even hidden - not to intervene, when there are means that seemed to us quite reasonable to implement to get his two daughters. Concretely, this raises questions about the rhetoric of the Ministry of the Interior, which always approaches migration policy by criminalizing smugglers, but in reality, the only solution left to this woman to get her two daughters out is to use smugglers. There are no other solutions. In any case, the state comes to remind that it would do nothing, so we remain without solutions.

Finally, the lawyer is now considering taking the case to the European Court of Human Rights, for what she considers to be "serious violations of rights protected" by the European Convention on Human Rights.

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Passports destroyed in France embassy in Sudan: 'the only solution, use smugglers'

Passports destroyed in France embassy in Sudan: 'the only solution, use smugglers'

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