Democracy & Justice

French police Abandon Migrants at Italian-French Border

On 12 October, a van of the French police was spotted by the Italian police in Claviere, Italy, on the border with France, where it allegedly left some African migrants. In addition, the church of Claviere, were many...

by Roberta Martucci Schiavi
The church in Claviere, Italy.

On 12 October, a van of the French police was spotted by the Italian police in Claviere, Italy, on the border with France, where it allegedly left some African migrants. In addition, the church of Claviere, were many immigrants were being cared for, was cleared. "I don't want to believe that Macron's France uses its police to secretly unload immigrants in Italy," Italy's interior minister, Matteo Salvini, said. It's the latest episode in series of abuses against the rights of immigrants along the French-Italian border.

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