French Refugee Service
More than 100,000 People Sought Asylum in France in 2017.
In France, over 200 000 asylum applications were registered in France in 2017 - a "historical" result, to which in particular the increased number of candidates from Albania and West Africa contributed. This was reported by France's Press Service Director for the French Service for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons, Pascal Bris.