Disputes Over Migrants Along the Porous Italy-France Border Expose EU Policy Holes - Asylum Ireland

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Disputes Over Migrants Along the Porous Italy-France Border Expose EU Policy Holes

Disputes Over Migrants Along the Porous Italy-France Border Expose EU Policy Holes

Last month, authorities in Italy requested a formal investigation of five French border patrol agents in the Alps who entered Italy to perform an unauthorized drug test on a Nigerian citizen, in what the authorities say was a violation of Italian sovereignty. It was just the latest episode in months-long tensions at the French-Italian border near Col de l’Echelle, or Colle Della Scala, a high mountain pass in northwestern Italy that has become a popular route for migrants trying to enter into France.


In March, a volunteer mountain guide on the French side of the border was charged with facilitating illegal immigration after he rescued a migrant woman on the pass; she was nearly nine months pregnant. In April, an anti-migrant protest organized by a mainly French far-right group with branches in other countries, including Italy, led to clashes with the Italian police and pro-migrant activists. …



, https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/24805/disputes-over-migrants-along-the-porous-italy-france-border-expose-eu-policy-holes


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