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Man saved from deportation after pollution plea in French legal ‘first’

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A Bangladeshi man with asthma has avoided deportation from France after his lawyer argued that he risked a severe deterioration in his condition, and possibly premature death, due to the dangerous levels of pollution in his homeland. In a ruling believed to be the first of its kind in France, the appeals court in Bordeaux overturned […]