A French administrative court has annulled the decision of the administrative arrest of the Armenian Babayan family, who was living illegally in France.    

The court, however, denied the family’s request to return to France.

According to L’Alsace daily of France, the court accepted that the head of the respective department had made a “legal error” by ordering an administrative arrest without considering the fact that the Armenian couple has seven-year-old and seven-month-old children.    

After more than twenty hours of administrative arrest, the Babayan family was deported to Armenia. 

The attorney for the family welcomed the court’s decision.

“I will ask the administration so that the family can return to France,” she added. 

The Babayan family was arrested on August 5, violently deported from France on the next day, and their arrest was recorded on video by the resident of a shelter for asylum seekers. Even though the family’s lawyer had lodged a complaint, the family was transferred to the Paris airport to be sent to Armenia.