Air France worker who was banned from working during Olympics wins court battle
Despite being cleared to work by an administrative investigation in February, a technician at Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle airport near Paris had his security clearance revoked during the Olympics on security grounds. The Paris police authority cited alleged links to an Islamist “environment”. Following an urgent appeal, the administrative court at Montreuil in the capital's eastern suburbs has just issued an injunction suspending the ban. Clément Le Foll reports.
InIn the space of a few seconds, the future of his professional career changed. On July 11th, aeronautical technician 'Yassine' – not his real name - received a registered letter from the Paris police authority or 'prefecture' at his home in Verrières-le-Buisson in Paris's southern suburbs. Reading it, this 40-year-old Frenchman, who is originally from Casablanca, Morocco, learned that his security clearance for accessing Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle Airport had been revoked for two months.
