the man without a state was ‘an anomaly for whom there is no appropriate niche in the framework of the general law’fn35 – an outlaw by definition – he was completely at the mercy of the police, which itself did not worry too much about committing a few illegal acts in order to diminish the country’s burden of indésirables.fn36 In other words, the state, insisting on its sovereign right of expulsion, was forced by the illegal nature of statelessness into admittedly illegal acts.fn37 It smuggled its expelled stateless into the neighboring countries, with the result that the latter retaliated in
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