Sunday, August 7, 2016

Migrants spend in strength the French-Italian border – Le Figaro

About 200 migrants have passed strength Franco-Italian border on Friday in Menton (Alpes-Maritimes), but a large majority of them were quickly arrested in order to be deported, according to the Alpes-Maritime prefecture .

after a first attempt in the morning, migrants, who had left a camp of the red Cross in Ventimiglia (Italy), managed to cross the border in the late afternoon, shortly before 18:00 with help of anti-globalization activists “no borders”.

the prefecture said in a statement that 152 migrants who had gathered on the waterfront were “invited to leave”, what they did “without incident”. “They are currently the subject of a non-admission procedure,” she adds. The others, who are estimated to number fifty, according to the prefecture, were scattered in the city of Menton and 21:00, “23 of them were arrested also in view of non-admission.”

the police set up a device with reinforcements dispatched on site to try to recover the last migrants and bring them back to the border. In a message on his Twitter account, the president of the region Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, Christian Estrosi, has asked the Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve “immediate action to return to Italy” the migrants arrived “in full state of emergency “.

in a statement, the prefecture says 4 militants” no borders “were arrested, one was placed in custody and another deported.

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