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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Diane Taylor

‘Signs of violence’: asylum seekers arriving in France injured after being deported from UK

People believed to be migrants step off a Border Force boat in Dover after being picked up in the Channel.
Samusocial de Paris’s report includes a case of one person who arrived in France in such a bad state he was sent to A&E. Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA

Multiple injuries including bruising and fractures have been documented by a health service supporting people returned to France under the controversial “one in, one out” scheme.

The pilot scheme involves one asylum seeker who crosses the Channel in a small boat being returned to France in return for another in northern France being legally brought to the UK to claim asylum. The scheme is due to end on 1 October.

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