Monitoring activities – forced deportations | 107 International collaboration In 2019, a legal case officer from the Ombudsman’ office participated in a European conference in Slovakia on monitoring of forced deportations. Deportations organised by other EU member states A legal case officer from the Ombudsman’s office monitored the forced deportation by German police of 18 foreign nationals by chartered plane from Germany to Tunisia in January 2019. Another legal case officer from the Ombudsman’s office monitored the forced deportation by French police of 36 foreign nationals by chartered plane from France to Georgia in October 2019. The Ombudsman submitted his report directly to the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, Frontex.