Echorouk visits the Algerian Chaabane Hadidane expelled from Britain: “They forced my wife to leave me…I want to see my daughter”

Situation of Algerian immigrants living in Britain is worrying and perplexing although their large number estimated, according to the latest statistics, to more than 30 thousand immigrants. Most of them arrived to the UK between 1995 and 2002, and then found administrative difficulties while regulating their situation, especially after the bombings, which prompted Britain to develop a program of protection from extremism.

• A program that make immigrants from different Arab and Muslim origins, according to many Algerians, work as security men and inform the British authorities of any suspicious movements by foreigners after the British media described them as terrorists.
• The strangest thing is that the British authorities, according to Echorouk sources, ask many immigrants to live as political refugees and the one who rejects this request will be expulsed and subject to various harassments and intrigues. In this context, Echorouk met an Algerian youngster who entered Britain in 1995, despite his marriage to a British woman and being able to impose himself as an artisan, however; he found himself carried over and rejected from Britain after a the court decision, towards Algeria, thus preventing him from living with his wife and daughter, as well as properties.
• Chaabane Hadidane, 41, entered Britain, according to his documents, in 1995. After months he met a British woman called Faye Smith, they married and got a daughter Natasha Leila, then the British authorities, in charge of pursuing communities, contacted him and proposed, as he said, the idea of requesting political asylum. However, he rejected the idea because he migrated legally and had no interest in politics that is why asking for political asylum, for him, is cutting the relations with his homeland.
• “I was surprised when justice summoned me twice. They were sure I‘d not accept political asylum. The British authorities asked me to leave their territory. I took my family to Ireland when we lived nine months with the license of residence. After trouble with the British Consulate in Ireland I obtained a visa to enter the British territory for six months only on payment of a sum of money… after that trouble began increasing through successive summons by the investigation bureau”, Chaabane said.
• “Investigative bureau summoned me then my wife in order to put pressure and convince her to leave me for mysterious reasons. Despite successive requests to be granted residence and in spite of all the texts in my favor notably having a voter’s card issued by the Algerian consulate on September 15, 1999. There were ten workers in my workshop and equipments estimated to half billion dinars. All efforts failed as I renewed my visa from time to time until 2003. They booked our passports and persuaded my wife of leaving me. She was forced to say that I am in a relationship with the Algerian pilot Raice Lutfi because I had his phone number as he asked me to do some works at his home like many British workers. The file was referred to justice and court decided to expulse me from Britain on charges of unemployment and irresponsibility, a false accusation. I have documents which confirm that i never gave up my work unless being summoned by investigative bureau”.
• Sufferance ended by deporting Chaabane from Britain, as he calls on President Abdelaziz Bouteflika first and human rights organizations, national and international public opinion to intervene and solve this case in order to help him live with his wife Faye Smith Hadidane and his daughter Natasha Leila Hadidane who is now 12 years old.