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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11567

8 June 2016
Contents Publication in full By article 26 / 35
COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU / (ae) jha
Migrants simply illegally crossing Schengen border does not justify imprisonment

Brussels, 07/06/2016 (Agence Europe) - Third-country nationals cannot be imprisoned simply because they have illegally crossed an internal border of the Schengen zone, the Court of Justice of the EU stated in a judgement returned on Tuesday 7 June (case C-47/15).

The Court of Justice, looking in this case at French law in light of the Directive on returns of third-country nationals residing illegally in the EU (2008/115/EC), followed the conclusions of Advocate General Maciej Szpunar, which...

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