(France24) After a high-profile campaign to try to block a controversial immigration court near Paris’s Charles de Gaulle airport, the court’s first session opened on Monday to a somewhat surreal scene.
In a building abutting an immigration detention center surrounded by cargo warehouses, the modest-sized new courtroom was crammed with lawyers, journalists and representatives of human rights organisations.
“At one point, we lawyers in our costumes were outside in a field in the middle of nowhere with planes flying overhead,” said Bruno Vinay, a French immigration lawyer, in an interview with FRANCE 24. “In the court itself, you could hear the planes outside. It was crazy.”
Unhampered by the surroundings, the first hearing at the new immigration court near the Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport got underway.
In many respects, it was an unusual hearing for a busy immigration court system coping with heavy caseloads, overburdened lawyers and harried defendants.
The court’s first plaintiff, Senegalese national Boubacar Fall, was represented by an unprecedented six voluntary lawyers.
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