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Former Frontex boss and now European election candidate Fabrice Leggeri
Photo: Kacper Pempel / REUTERS
The former head of the EU border protection agency Frontex, Fabrice Leggeri, is running for the French right-wing populist party Rassemblement National in the 2024 European elections. The party announced this on Saturday. A post on
Leggeri is ranked third on the list with which the party will go into the European elections, which also includes Jordan Bardella, leader of Rassemblement National.
From 2015 to 2022, Leggeri was the head of Frontex. Before his resignation there were repeated allegations against him. Among other things, Frontex units are said to have stopped refugee boats in the Aegean and handed over asylum seekers to the Greek coast guard. Research by SPIEGEL, Lighthouse Reports and the French newspaper Le Monde revealed that Leggeri covered up these Greek pushbacks and thereby violated his agency's regulations.
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