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Gambia frustrates Swiss deportation scheme
Thursday, 19 August 2010 07:50
Efforts by the Swiss authorities to deport rejected asylum seekers faces renewed difficulties as the Gambian
authorities denied landing rights to a plane carrying five Gambian asylum seekers. Swissinfo.ch reported Sunday that Switzerland had unsuccessfully resumed forced deportation flights of rejected asylum seekers. It quoted a spokesman for the Federal Migration Office as confirming an earlier newspaper report that the first flight since their suspension in March due to the death of a Nigerian took place on July 28.
The (latest) chartered aircraft first flew from Zurich to Mali where Swiss security personnel handed over one man to the local authorities, said Jonas Montani of the Migration Office, confirming an article in the NZZ am Sonntag newspaper.
However, the plane was not granted landing rights for a second stop in Gambia where five rejected asylum seekers were to be returned.
Montani said the aircraft was turned back even though Switzerland had received a verbal green light from Gambian officials in advance of the flight. He added that Switzerland has not yet received a reason for the refusal from Gambia.
The office said it was the first time it had experienced any problems with Gambia, even though Switzerland does not have an agreement regulating the return of asylum seekers with the African state.
Plans are being made to try to fly the five asylum seekers back to Gambia later this month.
Each flight costs SFr110,000 ($105,000).
Deportation flights were suspended on March 17, following the death of a 29-year-old convicted drug dealer. He suffered a heart attack and died at Zurich airport.
The heart attack was believed to have been brought on by the fact that the man had been on a hunger strike and was in a stressed state at the time.
In 2009, 43 special flights took off from Switzerland, deporting some 360 people, mostly towards the Balkans or Africa. In 2008 there were 45 flights.
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I am a member of Amnesty Intrnational Switzerland http://migration-schweiz.blogspot.com/2011/05/schweiz-verwehrt-fundamentales-recht.html
We are on the ground fighting against this inequality if you want to join us e-mail us at jambargi
Africa started sliding downwards since the division of the continent at the Berlin conference. In 1950's and 60's the continent had a second chance with the emerged of new Pan-Africanist leader: Patrice Lumumba, Nkrumah and Co. They all have the interest of their people and the continent in mind and were all systematically eradicated by western intelligent agents namely CIA, French, British and Belgian intelligent agents and where replace by puppet neo colonialist leaders who succeeded in looted the wealth of the continent in collaboration with western governments who benefits from these, this is why Africa is in its present stage hence the illegal migration.
African governments need to discuss steps to take against the Swiss for killing innocent husslers
When are they going to stop killing people before they deported them. I heard that they some times inject the deportees with what ever they feel..Please keep reporting about the Swiss brutallity so the whole world know what their true colors are.
Thanks David
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