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"Mr President, I fully support Mr Watson’s excellent report, particularly the text of the question in which the European Parliament calls upon the Council and the Commission to take seriously the fundamental human rights which the European Union proclaims every day. We believe that it is possible to respect human rights while pursuing a proper policy of combating illegal immigration. However, we do need appropriate instruments, appropriate forms of control, for otherwise a blind, bureaucratic system of rejection and forced repatriation will lead to tragedies such as that which occurred recently in Italy. In Milan, a family travelling from Syria, in transit from Amman to Casablanca, was forced to be repatriated to Syria, where the head of the family was immediately arrested and is in danger of being tortured and may be sentenced to death. We call upon you to ensure that similar tragedies are avoided so that nobody can say, as is stated in the minority opinion, that the Union’s readmission policy leads to the death of human beings. I call upon the Commission and the Council to make every endeavour to remedy the consequences of that tragic act carried out in my country, which can lead to a person being killed in another country."@en1
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