Migrants, in Ventimiglia tension and protests by refugees against … – The Messenger

“We will not go back” and “off the police”: these are the words shouted by migrants who are still on the cliffs at Ponte San Ludovico in Ventimiglia, obviously irritated by the presence of two units of the Department Mobile police and two units of the Mobile Battalion of the police.

The migrants flock in the border town to pass in France and are rejected by the police across the Alps. This night there were new arrivals, the total number of migrants, mostly Eritreans, approaching 200.

Some groups of refugees, after gombero yesterday, are still on the rocks. Migrants who two days are on the cliff, a few meters from the border with France, they cleaned up the waste dissolves and flowerbeds under the watchful eyes of the French gendarmerie and Italian police.

The situation is under control, there are no particular tensions. Arrived on site a small group of Medicin du Monde, a nonprofit organization that deals with French immigrants.

Two boys Ventimiglia, Irene and Christian, wanted to bring food and clothing to migrants who still They are on the rocks. “It is unworthy of people who allow themselves to be so – said Irene – and I believe that each of us should be able to contribute as much as it can to give them relief.”

Other migrants may have tried to cross the border at places least managed to bridge San Lodovico. The situation is quiet with regard to public order, but worries about the prospect of continuing the blockade of the border decided by the French authorities and the continuous arrival of new immigrants.

Yesterday, for the block of migrants at the border with France by the police side of the Alps, there had been a few tense moments. While the French police vans blocked the way to the refugees, the Italian police had cleared thirty migrants who bivouacked along the boundary line by Thursday evening. A group of about twenty refugees, mostly men, then managed to get back near the border and settle on a cliff guarded by the Italian police.

The mayor of Ventimiglia speaks of situation Abnormal: “I heard a group of young migrants with a regular train ticket from Nice to Paris was stopped and taken back to Italy. This thing is not normal, reject immigrants is not good, “said Enrico Ioculano (Pd).

             Sunday, June 14, 2015, 13:41 – Last Updated: 14:00
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