France issued an expired order in July requiring travelers from 4 countries, the United States, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Panama, to check negative at the airport before boarding their planes. the flight.
Five French citizens, in addition to a New York-based lawyer, Pierre Ciric, filed a lawsuit against the French government in mid-August, alleging that the policy violated their constitutional “right to return” because it is difficult to obtain check effects in such a short-term case in the United States.
A French court agreed that restricting a citizen’s ability to return to his home country is a violation of the Constitution, but the policy was not reversed.
On the other hand, the court allowed travellers to apply for a medical exemption at the French consulate instead of offering a negative result in the Covid-19 check, such exemptions are not easy to obtain.
Olivier Guibert, a French retiree living in Arizona, said, “I’m looking to see my mother, whom I haven’t noticed in a year, and unfortunately the French government is preventing me from moving to my country. “
“I feel discriminated against because we are on the list of annoying countries that have to provide a Covid check 72 hours before boarding. I just don’t get it,” he added.
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