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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11481

3 February 2016
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COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU / (ae) jha
Migrants in Schengen zone may not be imprisoned solely due to having entered it illegally

Brussels, 02/02/2016 (Agence Europe) - A foreign national who was not stopped when illegally crossing an external border of the Schengen area cannot be imprisoned solely on the basis of his illegal entry into the territory of a member state.

This is the conclusion presented by Advocate General Maciej Szpunar to the Court of Justice of the EU (case C-47/15) on Tuesday 2 February. Szpunar analysed the provision of French law which states that third-country nationals may be sentenced to a...

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