France: Honorary Counsel Suspended After Caught Selling Rubber Rafts To Migrants.(In Turkey)

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BUSTED -- France Honorary Consul Caught Selling Rubber Rafts To Syrian Refugees
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French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius on Friday suspended an honorary consul in Turkey for selling rubber dinghies and life jackets to refugees risking their lives crossing the Mediterranean to Europe. "The minister has just ordered her suspension," foreign ministry spokesman Romain Nadal told AFP following a television report showing the woman in her sailing goods shop in the southwestern Turkish resort town of Bodrum, with a French flag and plaque reading "Consular agency of France" hanging outside.

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France suspends consul in Turkey who sold rafts to refugees
France 2 television aired footage from a hidden camera showing the woman acknowledging that selling rafts was tantamount to France’s honorary consul helping fuel human trafficking

Reuters
September 12, 2015

PARIS: The French government has suspended its honorary consul in Turkey’s coastal resort city of Bodrum after she was caught on camera saying the store she runs sells inflatable rafts used by would-be refugees.
France 2 television aired footage from a hidden camera on Friday showing the woman, with her face blurred, acknowledging that selling the rafts was tantamount to France’s honorary consul helping fuel human trafficking.
“(Foreign Minister) Laurent Fabius has ordered that the honorary consul of Bodrum be suspended on account of the seriousness of the activities that were attributed to her,” ministry spokesman Romain Nadal said on his Twitter account.
France’s honorary consuls are allowed to have a paid job in addition to representing the country in secondary cities as volunteers, according to the ministry.
“If we stop selling (the rafts), then the store next door will, the one behind will. It won’t change anything,” she said, adding that local authorities and the port captain were aiding human trafficking by letting it happen. “We are at fault.” Hundreds of refugees, many fleeing the war in Syria, make the short crossing every day from Turkey to reach EU territory on Greece’s eastern islands, including Kos and Lesbos.
The International Organisation for Migration said on Friday an estimated 309,356 people had arrived by sea in Greece so far this year.

President Francois Hollande said on Monday that France was prepared to take in an additional 24,000 refugees over the next two years as part of a broader EU plan to accept asylum seekers.
— Reuters

If it'll piss France off,
I'll DONATE rafts to the refugees.

It is my understanding, that it was her shop (her money), & she is a volunteer representative of France (unpaid) & a resident of Turkey. But knowing & admittedly sold the rafts to Turkey nationals so they could get into Greece.

But being " suspended ", doesn't even seem like a slap on the wrist to me. I see this as an embarrassment to 3 countries. And I am very curious as to what laws, if any were broken?
And who's laws? Personally, I think Turkey should deport her or France recall her. Or her visas be revoked.