Turned away at Orly, he discovers that he is no longer French

Having left for Algeria for his father’s funeral, Abdel, a French civil servant, returns to France and finds himself faced with a major problem. He is turned away from the country when he gets off the plane at Orly (Val-de-Marne), then placed in detention. Released four days later, he fights to get his French passport back.

Leaving Algeria on July 21 for France, Abdel, a territorial civil servant, was a million miles from imagining what awaited him at Orly airport (Val-de-Marne). During passenger control,
PAF agents, the border police, are turning him back from French territory on the grounds that he has been the subject, since 2020, of an administrative file from the Seine-Saint-Denis prefecture designating him as a foreigner, reports The Parisian. What this 55-year-old man born in France in 1969 did not know. Then began the woes of the fifty-year-old. His 19-year-old son who traveled with him left the airport with his mother, but Abdel was detained at Orly for four days, far from his four children. However, he is a man who has always voted in France and has never had any problems traveling abroad with his French passport.