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...