A national from Algeria in the country of France who raped a child was given refugee status after the biological male claimed he was transgender and would thus be persecuted if he were to return to his home country. This, ladies and gentlemen, is absolutely a miscarriage of justice. A monster of this nature should be properly disposed of, if you can read the subtext. Instead, he’s been rewarded for claiming he’s a woman. People can now game the system by use of sexual identity in order to get away with horrific crimes.
via The Daily Wire:
The criminal, referred to in court documents as Medhi F., was convicted of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old minor in 2019 and sentenced to four years in prison, Le Journal du Dimanche (JDD) reported. In addition, Medhi F. was supposed to be deported from France. But in 2020, Medhi applied for asylum from the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons (OFPRA), claiming he couldn’t return to Algeria because he would face persecution as a trans-identifying male. OFPRA refused his request, citing a section of the French code that states that refugee status can be refused or terminated if the person asking “has been convicted in France … either for a crime or for an offense constituting an act of terrorism or punishable by ten years’ imprisonment, and his presence constitutes a serious threat to French society.”
Mehdi appealed his case to France’s National Court of Asylum (CNDA), which in 2023 overturned the OFPRA decision. The CNDA maintained that Medhi needed to meet two conditions to be excluded from refugee status: A conviction and posing a threat to society “on the date of the decision,” JDD reported. The CNDA decided that the conviction was indisputable but that Mehdi no longer posed a threat to French society, writing that he had “voluntarily committed himself from the start of his detention to numerous treatment protocols and professional integration procedures that justified the reduction of his sentence, that he had obtained in 2021 the judicial lifting of the additional sentence of banishment from the territory pronounced against him, that he had expressed regrets and a desire for social and professional integration, and that he benefited from psychiatric monitoring and associative support.”
In 2022, a psychiatrist made the determination that there was “no evidence supporting the hypothesis of a potential recidivism, thought it’s not clear how the doctor made that determination.
OFPRA was not supportive of he decision made by the CNDA, which prompted them to take the case all the way to the Council of State which is France’s highest court for hearing cases concerning public administration. A few months back, in July, the Council of State issued a ruling in favor CNDA, going on to say that convictions:
“cannot in themselves legally justify a decision refusing or terminating refugee status” and that “the time that has elapsed and the entire behavior of the person concerned since the commission of the offenses” should be taken into account.
OFPRA then appealed the Council’s decision, however, on Monday the ruling was upheld. Judges said that Mehdi, who is currently in the midst of some kind of transition to the opposite sex, is right in fearing the persecution that would come his way should he return to Algeria and that the fear is so great it justifies giving him refugee status.