Hollande allows deported girl to return but alone
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President Francois Hollande said yesterday that a 15-year-old schoolgirl whose expulsion from France has sparked uproar could return to pursue her studies but without her family, a compromise following criticism from left-wing allies.
The outcry began after Leonarda Dibrani, whose family entered the country illegally in 2009, was ordered off a school bus by police in front of her classmates before being sent this month to Kosovo, her father’s native country.
Thousands of students marched through the streets of Paris and surrounding cities on Friday demanding that she be allowed to return to France, and Socialist lawmakers warned the party was at risk of “losing its soul” with tough deportation tactics.
Hundreds of students gathered yesterday in northern Paris to call for Interior Minister Manuel Valls to resign.
Hollande’s gesture toward Dibrani, who said from Kosovo yesterday she would not return without her family, appeared to be designed to show clemency without undermining his interior minister or offering fodder to a burgeoning far-right movement.
Frustration over illegal migration and Roma camps on the outskirts of French cities has bolstered support for the far-right National Front party ahead of municipal and European polls next year, putting Hollande in a delicate position.
The Socialist leader defended the deportation as legally sound because the Dibranis had exhausted all recourse for political asylum in France but said the decision was based on the need to take her “human situation” into account.
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