EXCLUSIVE – Le Figaro had access to the figures that Paris disseminated to the Office of the European Union Eurostat, which presents itself as “the source of high quality statistics and data in Europe”.
Never has France had to process so many asylum seekers on its soil: 154,597 in 2022. This is 16.5% more than in 2021. The level of 2019 (last full year before Covid), with its 151,283 applications in total, is exceeded. These figures, to which Le Figaro has had access, are those that Paris has disseminated to the Office of the European Union Eurostat, which presents itself as “the source of high quality statistics and data in Europe”.
They therefore include the “first requests”, which exceeded 131,000 last year (+ 27% compared to 2021), according to the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons (Ofpra), but also applicants under the Dublin procedure. Clearly, these foreigners who come knocking at the French counter, while under the Dublin agreements, their file should have been processed in the European country through which they passed first during their journey. These “Dublines”, as they are called in the administrative jargon, numbered more than 23,000 in…
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