Now the border between Italy and France is as if you were playing a game of ping-pong with the refugees as balls. France is continuing the policy of readmissions: find irregular migrants on its territory and sends them in Italy because from there they arrived, authorities say transalpine.
The Italian border police checks the documents of migrants “sent” in Italy and if you are not part of those who are really from Italy passed them back across the border, Menton. Today this situation was experienced by a total of 90 people: 55 were rejected by Italy. This coming and going has generated some confusion and in the afternoon there was the feeling that France had taken a soft line. Feeling denial. “Our line has not changed,” ANSA said a senior official of the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes. The “deportation” of illegal migrants towards Italy “continues in the normal way.” In short, the French border remains “closed” to the migrants and “open within the rules,” says the French Embassy in Rome.
An invitation to “open up” comes from the French bishops who they have entrusted their thinking Osservatore Romano. “Migrants – the bishops write – are not problems, but men, women, children are human beings. They should not be regarded primarily as a risk or a potential attack on national sovereignty. We must emerge from a logic of migration only security or police. ” Waiting for the end of this situation, they count the days of the block in Ventimiglia: already one week, with a hundred diehards camped on the rocks of the frontier bridge in St. Louis, with hundreds more settled at the station of Ventimiglia and in other places.
Today to assist children also came volunteers UNICEF, while supporting others have also thought of those of Music for Peace, started from Genoa. Meanwhile, the Deputy Secretary of the Democratic Party Debora Serracchiani invites each region to do its part and the House speaker Laura Boldrini points out that the situation with migrants that Italy is going through “is not an emergency because the emergency is where there is war . The emergency is in the Mediterranean where 1,200 people have died. “
Between words, expulsions and readmissions life of refugees in Ventimiglia goes on between prayers, Ramadan, sudden illnesses, scabies and an internet point set up in so ‘the wheel by volunteers with a laptop to allow migrants to speak with family members.
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