The Frenchman had come under pressure in connection with reports of human rights violations at the EU’s external border.
The head of the EU border protection agency Frontex, Fabrice Leggeri, has tendered his resignation. The agency’s board of directors wanted to deal with it on Friday, the AFP news agency learned from circles familiar with the case.
Frenchman Leggeri was through in connection with reports of human rights violations Frontex at the EU’s external borders: The European border protection authority Frontex demonstrably picked up a total of 957 refugees in boats off the Greek coast between March 2020 and September 2021 alone and illegally released them again in Turkish waters, according to a joint research by the German “Spiegel”. , the Swiss media SRF and the Republic as well as the French daily newspaper Le Monde.
Frontex therefore keeps a detailed database of its own operations. According to this, 22 cases of so-called illegal pushbacks alone can be assigned to entries in this database.
But the EU border guards apparently embellished their records massively: Each of these seizures was entered as if the refugees had been discovered directly in Turkish waters – each of the operations was noted as “preventing the exit” from Turkey.
(APA/ ed.)