The Eritrean man wins a block of removal in France under “One In, One Out”

The Eritrean man who arrived in the UK by a small boat won a last -minute legal claim to temporarily block his removal in France.

The 25-year-old had to be returned Wednesday under the pilot scheme “One In, One Out” agreed in July between the United Kingdom and France.

In the first legal challenge against the London Supreme Court deal, his lawyers claim that he needed more time to present evidence that he could be a victim of contemporary slavery – and the decision to eliminate him was hasty.

Scientific Secretary Liz Kendall told the BBC that the decision was a “temporary solution for an individual” that will not stop the deal.

“This will not stop this truly important deal from moving forward, a deal that says that if you come to this country illegally, you will and will be deported,” Kendall said.

She said that ministers have never claimed that the deal would be a “silver bullet to deal with all problems,” but insists that the Interior Secretary Shabana Mahmoud is determined to make sure she works.

Dilution raises serious questions about whether other migrants distributed for flights will use the same grounds to slow down or block them.

Lawyers at the interior office claimed that he could ask for asylum in France. They added that the delay in his departure could encourage others allocated to return flights this week to make such claims and undermine the public interest in deterred of the deadly small boat crossings.

But during the hearing, it appeared that while his own secretary officials rejected his claim that he was a victim of slavery, they also said in a letter today that he had the right to make additional representations – and they would not expect him to do so from France.

The justice Sheldon, who rejected the man’s claim that he would be left homeless and depopulated in France, said he would still have to temporarily block the departure of the man to the light of this development.

“There is a serious question that must be tried in connection with the claim for traffic and whether the Secretary of State has fulfilled or not its investigative obligations legally,” he said.

“If there was a reasonable suspicion that he was traffic – and that does not mean traffic in or from France – this would be a legal lane for at least a short period of time.”

The judge stated that the man’s lawyers must do everything possible to make additional offices within 14 days so that his case is finalized at a future hearing.

A spokesman for the internal office told the BBC that the government expects the first recovery to be held immediately and that the interim solution will not prevent the wider policy from providing.

But Imogen Townley, a lawyer at Wilson LLP, who was asylum seekers, said there seemed to be “a rather arbitrary and chaotic approach to choosing people arriving on small boats.”

She said that while he was accepting legal claims, she would be disappointing to the government, “it was worth a proper process and an honest system.”

“It is not realistic to think that the people who are in the scheme have no individual circumstances (preventing them),” Townley said.

She said she did not think the United Kingdom deal was arranged as there was no “comprehensive problem” with the design of the scheme.

Kemi Badenoch answered the news about the order with “We told you so.”

Speaking to LBC, the conservative leader called for “some difficult laws” and said that “we basically make our country a refuge for anyone who can have even the least misery in any other country.”

Reform leader Nigel Farak said that even if the policy is working, it will not lead to more migration numbers like “one in, one out, and with the other, it still means plus one for anyone who crosses the channel.”

The documents entered into the Supreme Court show that a man who cannot be baptized for legal reasons left Ethiopia for Europe two years ago, arriving in Italy in April 2025.

A month later, he left for France, where he was assisted by charity organizations, including the Red Cross, before his mother pays $ 1,400 (£ 1,024) to smugglers to cross his channel to the United Kingdom.

More than 30,000 people have passed the channel into small boats so far this year.

This is the worst moment in the calendar year this figure was accepted as the intersection data was first reported in 2018.

The One in One Scheme was declared by Prime Minister Kyer Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron in July.

Under the Treaty, France agreed to take back migrants who traveled to the United Kingdom by small boat and withdrew their claim for asylum or declared inadmissible.

For anyone who returns to France, the United Kingdom will accept someone with a defense case like a refugee who has not tried to cross the channel.

No one has yet been removed under the scheme. The first returns to France were expected to start Tuesday.

Over the last two weeks, some migrants held at immigration removal centers have received letters saying they will be placed on a planned Air France flight departing Heathrow Airport to Paris at 9am this morning.

However, a number of sources have told the BBC that some of the potential passengers have been told that their departure will be postponed as additional ideas have been made to their cases.

Asked by reporters – before the Supreme Court’s decision – if the scheme is “shameful”, a government spokesman said “No”.

They added that the government was “confident on the legal basis for this pilot, we have taken steps to ensure that it is in line with domestic and international law; as with any policy, we are ready to respond to any legal control that is being carried out.”

It will probably regain the discussion on the role of the European Convention on Human Rights, which is a flash on political law since the previous Rwanda’s failed plan of the previous government.

Conservatives will put their position on ECHR at their conference next month, with a wide expectation for them to descend to the side of the withdrawal.

Sir Keyer said this is not something he is willing to do, so the pressure will be turned on so that his government can show that they can get their return scheme to work in it.