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National Embarrassment after France Caught Dumping Migrants in Italy

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A French police van was seen on Friday driving into Italy to return recently-arrived migrants to the town of Claviere.

"It was an error to enter Italian territory without the authorisation of the Italian police," said Cecile Bigot-Dekeyzer, the top official in the Hautes-Alpes region.

"The police had no right to enter Italian territory," the prefect said.

Italy's Interior Minister Matteo Salvini lashed out France Tuesday.

"Does Paris, which claims to be civil, find it normal to throw people into the woods?... We're dealing with an international shame, and Mr Macron can't pretend he doesn't know. We won't accept any excuses," Salvini wrote.

Relations between Rome and Paris have been increasingly tense in recent months, with Italy's populist government accusing France and others of failing to share the burden of the 700,000 migrants and asylum seekers that have crossed the Mediterranean to come to Italy since 2013.

https://www.thelocal.it/20181017/french-police-dumping-migrants-in-woods
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Macron has been quietly strengthening immigration laws, adding tough jail sentences for illegal migration into France, and quickening deportation processing times. According to what I've read, he is well within French popular opinion that the time for lax borders has passed, and that now is the time for stronger border controls.
 
"share the burden of the 700,000 migrants and asylum seekers"... this is ending in all kinds of mess for various EU nations.
 
truthatallcost said:
Macron has been quietly strengthening immigration laws, adding tough jail sentences for illegal migration into France, and quickening deportation processing times. According to what I've read, he is well within French popular opinion that the time for lax borders has passed, and that now is the time for stronger border controls.
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Were the migrants "thrown into the woods"? Or were they returned "to the town of Claviere?
 
Mycroft said:
Were the migrants "thrown into the woods"? Or were they returned "to the town of Claviere?
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and there lies the pudding in which truth may be sought.

It has ALWAYS been policy (Dublin accords) that immigrants into the EU be processed in the country they first touch and Italy has always been notorious in its behaviour of waving them on (dumping them on to neighbors).
 
It's called sticking to what is agreed.
 
Mycroft said:
Were the migrants "thrown into the woods"? Or were they returned "to the town of Claviere?
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Both. French authorities dumped them into the woods, without alerting Italian authorities.

Chagos said:
and there lies the pudding in which truth may be sought.

It has ALWAYS been policy (Dublin accords) that immigrants into the EU be processed in the country they first touch and Italy has always been notorious in its behaviour of waving them on (dumping them on to neighbors).
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And France returned the serve. That part is new, hence the story appearing in dozens of news articles.
 
The head of the Hautes-Alpes region that flanks Italy has acknowledged that its police had crossed the border and called the incursion “an error”.

Where it is French policy to return those that entered illegally to the neighboring state they entered from, it is not French policy to do that in the manner described (i.e. without alerting Italian police first).

The claim of "France" having dumped two men is thus rather silly, local cops taking matters into their own hands notwithstanding.

Last year France incidentally turned some 85,000 would-be immigrants back at the Italian border, so the claim of tighter border controls being a most recent development is just as daft.
 
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Chagos said:
I can't read gibberish, but try punctuation and I might be able to.
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Seriously?

You certainly write only gibberish, I dont see why you cannot read it. Btw, there is absolutely not a single thing wrong with ANYTHING I wrote in that one sentence ... proper capitalization and a question mark at the end not enough for you? Need it read aloud to you? Overly coddled much?

Oh, I get it, you cannot debate the merits. Ahhhhh, good deflection.

Second btw, https://app.grammarly.com/?utm_sour...5f115&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=grammar+checker ... if you need to find out the real deal. Yano?
 
Gaugingcatenate said:
Overly coddled much?
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Chagos said:
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