A demonstrator with a placard reading “Goodbye France, land of asylum” supports migrants from Sudan at the Bayonne train station, southwestern France, on December 19. Photo: AP
A demonstrator with a placard reading “Goodbye France, land of asylum” supports migrants from Sudan at the Bayonne train station, southwestern France, on December 19. Photo: AP
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France sees ‘historic’ 100,000 asylum claims in 2017, as futile Albanian applications soar

Agence France-Presse
Agence France-Presse

Updated: 1:03pm, 9 Jan, 2018

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A demonstrator with a placard reading “Goodbye France, land of asylum” supports migrants from Sudan at the Bayonne train station, southwestern France, on December 19. Photo: AP
A demonstrator with a placard reading “Goodbye France, land of asylum” supports migrants from Sudan at the Bayonne train station, southwestern France, on December 19. Photo: AP
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