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"Mr President, the Eurodac project shows the true face of liberal Europe. A fortress of suspicion and police repression aligned against the persecuted people of this earth.
The computer database of fingerprints is an infringement of individual freedom. It systematically treats asylum seekers as suspects. It calls into question the inviolability of the documents held by the bodies responsible for handling asylum requests. It contravenes the legal protection to which refugees are entitled. Applying even to children as young as 14, it contravenes the International Convention on the Rights of the Child, specifically article 10 thereof.
Who here would dare take the fingerprints of a fourteen year-old kid? The Eurodac project makes criminals of the immigrants who find themselves without proper papers, without status, often because of the diversity of laws between countries. Basically, it contravenes all international conventions for the protection of human rights. With this, fortress Europe is committing the crime of failing to assist refugees in danger. Is this so surprising for a liberal Europe which arms the Ankara dictatorship with combat helicopters, while at the same time rejecting Kurdish refugees? Eurodac must of necessity be rejected."@en1
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