Media reports: Frontex boss Leggeri offers to resign

Media reports: Frontex boss Leggeri offers to resign

The EU border protection agency Frontex is repeatedly criticized. Mainly because of illegal rejections of migrants in the Mediterranean. But failures at the authority itself are also criticized.

According to media reports, the head of the European border protection agency Frontex, Fabrice Leggeri, is ready to resign. According to information from the magazine “Spiegel”, this emerges from a letter from the French to the board of directors of the authority.

Leggeri offered his resignation. The magazine “Politico” also reported on it from Brussels. There was initially no official comment.

Frontex has long been criticized for illegally rejecting migrants in the Mediterranean. According to this, executives of the authority are said to have deliberately covered up the fact that Greek border guards were bringing refugees back to the open Mediterranean Sea. Rejections of people seeking protection at the external borders – so-called pushbacks – are illegal under international law. Frontex is based in Warsaw.

Source: Stern

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