Fabrice Leggeri s resignation comes a day after an investigative report said the EU border agency had illegally forced back nearly 1,000 asylum seekers in the Aegean Sea.
BRUSSELS: The head of the European Union’s border agency Frontex, Fabrice Leggeri, has offered to resign, a source said on Friday, after accusations the body mistreated migrants on the external frontiers of the bloc. Frontex spokesman Pior Switalski declined to comment as the management board of the Warsaw-based agency was meeting. Leggeri, who was attending the meeting, was
The head of the European Union’s border agency Frontex, Fabrice Leggeri, has offered to resign, a source told Reuters on Friday, after accusations that the body mistreated migrants on the external frontiers of the bloc.