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Frontex – Fabrice L.
Type of liability
Personne physique
Alleged perpetrator(s)
Fabrice L.
Nationality of alleged perpetrator(s)
French
Legal classification of crime(s)
Complicity in crimes against humanity
Complicity in torture and acts of barbarity
Source of the complaint
NGO
Ongoing proceedings
oui
Regime
4 - 113 CP
Summary of facts
Fabrice L. served as Executive Director of Frontex, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, from 2015 to 2022.
In the course of his duties, he allegedly actively facilitated illegal pushbacks at sea of migrant boats.
Fabrice L. allegedly pursued a migration policy aimed at preventing migrants from entering the EU, whatever the cost – including in human lives.
Amnesty International France recalls that everyone is presumed innocent until proven guilty according to law.
Legal proceedings
In March 2026: the Investigating Chamber of the Paris Court of Appeal held that “the mere abstract examination of the complaint” was not sufficient to ground inadmissibility, and ordered the opening of the judicial investigation in order to determine the “legal nature of the material assistance to the Libyan authorities and determine the imputability of these acts” to Fabrice L., stressing that “the mere circumstance of the existence of international commitments is not sufficient to justify a refusal.”</p>
Complaint
Names of NGOs / Victim(s)
Utopia 56