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FRANCE: Battle lines drawn

01 September 1994

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War has broken out between hardline Interior Minister Charles Pasqua and the judiciary over the administrative detention and deportation of Algerians. 20 Algerians arrested in the recent round-ups of suspected "extremists" and detained in disused barracks were deported to Burkina Faso in August. Judges who have declared Pasqua's deportation orders unlawful and revoked them have been attacked by him as lacking in judicial independence, and Pasqua has gone on TV to declare his intention of intensifying his campaign against Algerians. He has even threatened a bill to deal with the "wayward" judiciary, as well as promising police more public order powers. Meanwhile, in the week after the death of five French people in Algiers French police stopped and checked 22,000 people, mostly undocumented foreigners.

IRR European Race Audit no 10 September 1994

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