Air France criticized for deportations
French trade unions want Air France to stop using its planes to deport illegal immigrants.
The unions, which made the request at the airline's annual general meeting in Paris, said some members were traumatized by seeing the handling of failed asylum seekers forcibly sent home, the BBC said Thursday.
Immigration officials said some 2,200 of the 6,000 people deported between January and May of this year were under police escort.
Jean Pierre Dubois, president of the French League of Human Rights, told the BBC that Air France carried more deportees than any other European airline.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy said he plans to expel more than 25,000 failed asylum seekers from France this year, the BBC said. // Copyright 2007 by United Press International
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