The Court of Appeal of the French city of Bordeaux last month granted “sick foreigner” status to a Bangladeshi man suffering from a respiratory illness, taking into account air pollution from his country of origin, thereby potentially having created legal precedent for a new category of refugees, French portal InfoMigrants writes.

After having lived in France for nearly a decade, Sheel, a Bangladeshi man suffering from a difficult respiratory disease, obtained his first residence permit for a sick foreigner in 2015. The unremarkable forty-something migrant living in Toulouse, in the Haute-Garonne, and suffers a severe form of asthma requiring heavy treatment as well as a strong sleep apnea forcing him to sleep under respiratory assistance every night.

Despite his fragile state of health, he was refused a renewal of his residence permit in June 2019 the and risked deportation. The French prefecture involved in his case stated that the applicant could obtain appropriate treatment in Bangladesh. His request for family reunification to find his wife back home was also rejected.

A year later, the administrative court canceled the prefect’s decree, arguing that while medicine to relieve asthma attacks are indeed available in Bangladesh, the basic treatment does not exist. But the prefect did not stop there and brought the case before the Bordeaux Court of Appeal which confirmed, on Dec. 18, the first judgment and even added a criterion unprecedented in France: that air pollution in Bangladesh has a bearing on whether a migrant can remain in France.

“This is the first time in France that a court has taken into account the climatic criterion to justify that a person should benefit from the status of sick foreigner,” said Ludovic Rivière, lawyer at the Toulouse bar and representative of Sheel. “Because it is obvious that the environmental conditions in Bangladesh today allow us to say that it would be illusory for my client to be treated there, it would amount to sending him to certain death.”

“In the same way that we do not send an AIDS patient to a country where he cannot be treated or a death row inmate to a state which practices capital punishment, Sheel cannot be deported to Bangladesh. But we are still far from setting a precedent and creating a real status of climate refugee in France,” Rivière said, who now hopes that the public authorities and the courts will consider the climate issue more systematically.

“The candidates for climate exile will be more and more numerous, the politicians will have no other choice but to take an interest in it quickly.”

The threat of left-wing parties using climate change as a pretext to accept millions of migrants into Europe is a real one. For example, the German Green Party released a proposal to accept 150 million climate refugees to live in Germany, which would amount to nearly double Germany’s current population. 

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They came to the Canary Islands as “protection seekers” and behave like bulls in a china shop. In the tourist communities of Mogán and San Bartolomé de Tirajana on Gran Canaria, hardly a day goes by without reports of vandalism, burglaries, thefts, fights or robberies committed by young Moroccan migrants.Apartment complexes have to enforce the protection of their tenants and gates have to be kept locked already during the day. Such a thing has never happened before. For a long time, the problem was denied by some local politicians, but now the violence has reached the communities. Citizens are afraid and feel abandoned by the state. Because of yesterday’s brawl in the Plaza del Hierro in San Fernando de Maspalomas, a meeting is being held today with Mayor Conchi Narváez and the government delegation. Various police chiefs will also take part in this meeting.After the brawl, the North Africans then moved towards the Centro Comercial Anexo II in Playa del Inglés where there were further attacks on tourists.

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Ali R. has been on trial since the beginning of January. According to the indictment, he tried to rape a girl in Meißen in the summer of 2020, even dragging her into the river Elbe. So far he has remained silent.

On Monday he suddenly declared: ” Dear judge, I am much younger.” Now the question is how old the accused really is and whether he must be sentenced according to adult criminal law (up to five years in prison) or juvenile criminal law (educational measures).

So far, all documents available state that Ali R. was born in June 1997. As an Afghan citizen in Tehran. That would make him 23 years old. Now he suddenly claims to have been born in 2000, i.e. 20 years ago.

He says he confused his date of birth with that of his sister. In addition, his real birth date is in a document that the Office for Foreigners’ Affairs (BAMF) has on file.

Immediately, the chamber did some research. And lo and behold: this Persian document, which was specially checked by experts from the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees, states that Ali was “estimated” to be 13 years old in 2013.

However, the experts also say that this is not an official document, but rather a copy with ” redrawn” stamps. The Federal Office for Migration and Refugees thus never saw any reason to change the recorded date of birth from 1997 to 2000.

His brother Hussein, who was born on the same day in the same town according to the documents, could have made things clearer. He is currently being tried at the district court in the same building. So he was questioned. His answer: “We are only twins when we are in Germany”.

They had not fled, by the way, but had come to Germany “to have a look”. Now the court had to commission an elaborate age test involving three clinics before the trial against Ali R. could continue.

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In Germany, in the Diepholz district there was a death on Wednesday a short time after a Corona vaccination. An 89-year-old from a retirement home in Weyhe died about an hour after receiving the first vaccination. Whether there is a connection between the vaccination and the death of the elderly woman is now being examined, said District Administrator Cord Bockhop.

The Weser-Kurier, a daily that serves Bremen and Lower Saxony, reported that a 89-year-old was among a total of 315 people who were vaccinated with the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine on Wednesday in a total of three senior facilities in the district. Bockhop reported that the vaccination took place around 12 o’ clock. The vaccinated persons then remained under medical observation for 15 minutes. She was reported to have “no visible symptoms typical of allergies”.

“At about 12:45 p.m. the situation arose where the 89-year-old had to be revived,” continued Bockhop.

Two paramedics and two doctors were on site to accompany the vaccination team. In addition, an ambulance and the emergency doctor were alerted immediately. Nevertheless, the 89-year-old died about half an hour later.

The district was informed immediately, as well as the Paul Ehrlich Institute (as prescribed in such cases). The Paul Ehrlich Institute will now examine whether there is a connection between the vaccination and her death. “At the moment the only connection that is visible to us is the temporal connection,” emphasized Bockhop.

The 89-year-old was “generally fit” and “well oriented” at the time of the vaccination. She had been informed in advance and also telephoned a relative after the vaccination and reported that she had now also been vaccinated.

Due to data protection, the district cannot provide any information about previous illnesses or other health problems, Bockhop continued.

An autopsy of the 89-year-old has been ordered, added First District Councilor Jens-Hermann Kleine. As soon as results are available, they will be announced, Bockhop stated. However, he could not say when that would happen. “That is beyond our sphere of influence.”

The vaccinations in the district will however continue on Thursday, the district administrator announced. “Nothing has changed about the need for vaccinations,” he said. Nor in the quality of the vaccine or the vaccination team.

He expressed his condolences to the relatives of the 89-year-old. “We mustn’t forget that this is about people, not just numbers.”

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