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Why did they beat me?
The respondent is an Egyptian man who has been arrested by the french border police during a control of a Flixbus on the highway near Nice at 1.30 a.m. in the morning of the 20th of October 2025. He waas first taken without explanation to the police station in Nice from where he has been transferred to the border police post in Menton.
Cell of the border police post of the PAF in Menton
As he claimed to get access to information for the reason of his detention and refused to stop asking he was first insulted by a police officer and then beaten several times while being insulted. The man was pushed back to Italy at 11.00 a.m. in the morning of the 20th of October.
The man had to interrupt his journey to Spain and found himself in the city of Ventimiglia without having slept in the night and with no possibility to continue his journey home to Spain where he would have access to the necessarz money and documents.
legal analysis
The respondent’s account of being detained without legal basis or access to due process constitutes arbitrary detention, which is prohibited under international and regional human rights law (Art. 9 UDHR; Art. 9.1 ICCPR; Art. 5.1 ECHR; Art. 6 EUCFR). The automatic or punitive detention of asylum seekers or persons on the move, particularly without access to legal remedies or information on the reasons for detention, violates these principles.
Refusing to process or receive asylum claims, as well as interference or obstruction in individuals' asylum processes is a violation of the Right to Asylum as established in the 1951 Refugee Convention, the UN Declaration on Human Rights (Article 14), and the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights (Article 18).
overview
from Egypt,
aged about 30.