In Dijon, a baker fights to keep his apprentice with him. Ibrahima Barry, originally from Guinea, will turn 18 in three weeks and is threatened with deportation. A story that recalls another in Besançon not long ago.
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Ibrahima Barry is proud to be a baker and he would like to stay that way. But this young Guinean does not know if he will be able to obtain his CAP in June. On February 2, he will be 18 years old and he could be forced to leave France.
“Since November, those in charge of the home have told me that to stay here, to continue my work, I must obtain a residence permit. I cannot do this file because I do not have my passport”, explains the young man.
He does not have a passport, because the Guinean Embassy in France does not issue one. For Frédéric Tarride, baker in Dijon and Ibrahima’s apprentice master since September 2019, the young man’s situation is totally incomprehensible, and above all unfair.
“We wanted to continue to make him work or even hire him”
“Ibrahima is a very good apprentice, confides the baker. We have just learned that in three weeks, he has no more work, he no longer has the right to have a salary, he no longer has the right to continue his training just because he would miss a paper for the prefecture. “
“He has a consular identity card, he has all the papers, his birth certificate, everything he needs. Except his passport. That would be missing for him to continue his apprenticeship.”, he continues.
We, behind, we wanted to continue to make him work or even hire him. And we cannot because we are in this administrative situation which blocks us.
“This is not a file. He is an extremely pleasant person, who is hardworking, who wants to integrate. He learned French in less than a year, he works as I have seen very little apprentices have been doing it for 17 years. These young people have to be allowed to integrate, they only ask for that. “
Ibrahima’s story recalls another. That of a baker from Besançon, Stéphane Ravacley, who started a hunger strike in early January so that his apprentice is not forced to return to Guinea. Laye Fodé Traore finally obtained his regularization, after ten days of mobilization of his boss.
“It took Stéphane in Besançon to go on hunger strike to get people talking about him so that we could unblock his situation, recalls Frédéric Tarride. But it took to the extreme. There, we would like reason to prevail. “
A meeting on Friday at the prefecture
Ibrahima has an appointment on Friday January 22 at the prefecture. He will be accompanied there by Pascal Varlet, the educator of the Acodège association who has been following him since his arrival in France. “The prefecture asks for a passport that the country of Ibrahima, Guinea, does not issue. So these are attestations of non-issuance of passports issued by the embassy. Is this document not sufficient to make a first request for a residence permit “, she wonders.
The educator also mentions the words of the Minister of Labor Élisabeth Borne, during a trip to the Doubs on January 8, then questioned on the case of the apprentice of Besançon. “When we welcome unaccompanied minors who engage in training, after two years, if everything has gone well, then they can continue to work in France”, explained the minister.
Worried, Ibrahima only hopes for one thing: to see his situation regularized and continue to learn his trade. “Ibrahima is not the only one. In Côte-d’Or and elsewhere, there are other young people in his situation”, recalls his educator.
video length: 01:29
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Dijon: Ibrahima Barry, apprentice baker, is threatened with expulsion
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