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Deportee living in African airport claims he was abandoned by gardai

Summary

A man deported from Ireland claims he has lived in an Ethiopian airport terminal since March, after Gardaí allegedly abandoned him. He says he was flown from Ireland to Belgium with Gardaí, then to Ethiopia where he was supposed to catch a connecting flight home. He alleges the Gardaí gave him a boarding pass, took his passport, and left him in the terminal, promising to return. He could not board the flight because he had no passport and was later given his passport two hours after the flight departed. He reports being left without money, a phone, or luggage, and has survived on charity and rummaging through bins. He says his passport was stolen after a week. He has filed judicial review against the Minister for Justice, seeking an order to quash the requirement that his solicitor obtain a signed authority from him and to compel the Minister to respond to his correspondence.

Who, what, where, when and why

What: Report matter: Deportee living in African airport claims he was abandoned by gardai. Procedural stage: hearing_or_decision

When:

• 2020-09-22 Publication

Why: The man claims he never saw the gardai again and that he was unable to board the flight to his home country because he had no passport, and cannot get home. CNI source report

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Stage Hearing Or Decision Theft

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