France To Send Reinforcements To Italy Border After Protests
Rukhshan Mir (@rukhshanmir) Published April 23, 2018 | 11:46 AM
France's interior minister said he would send "significant" security reinforcements to the country's Alpine border with Italy after a weekend of protest actions by pro and anti migrant groups
Lyon, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 23rd Apr, 2018 ) :France's interior minister said he would send "significant" security reinforcements to the country's Alpine border with Italy after a weekend of protest actions by pro and anti migrant groups.
Far-right groups and pro-migrant activists have turned the mountain passes by the border, which are used by migrants travelling from Italy to France, into a stage for "provocations" and "posturing", Gerard Collomb said.
"Faced with these unacceptable actions," the minister, whose controversial immigration law was adopted Sunday by the National Assembly, said "significant police and gendarme reinforcements" would be deployed.
The extra security forces will "ensure absolute respect for the control of the border," he added.
Late Saturday and early Sunday, activists from a small French far-right group blocked a key mountain pass some six kilometres from the Italian border which they say is a "strategic point for illegal migrants", prompting a furious reaction from pro-migrant activists.
On Sunday afternoon, a procession of French and Italian pro-migrant groups crossed the border at the Montgenevre Pass, alongside some 30 migrants, and had some minor scuffles with law enforcement officials on the way, a police source said.
The interior ministry said "violence was committed against security forces and a gendarme vehicle was damaged". Thousands of young men from francophone west Africa have trudged across the mountains over the past two years, dreaming of jobs in France.
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