An African migrant was arrested on suspicion of stabbing and killing a 19-year-old man in the French city of Fréjus during the weekend of June 27–28th.
The suspect, from Guinea in West Africa, was scheduled to face a deportation ruling on the day of his alleged offence, in which a young man was killed with a knife blow to the neck. Rescue workers struggled in vain to help the deceased.
Three other young men were hospitalized during the knife attack, which occurred shortly after the Guinean alleged perpetrator filed an appeal against his French deportation order (or OQTF), which the local administrative court was scheduled to examine.
Not for the first time, a violent crime was committed—allegedly—by someone already subject to a French deportation order. Indeed, France appears to struggle with deporting migrants who have been ordered to leave the country.
