‘Inhumane treatment’ of migrants at Italy-France border: MSF

By AFP, Rome
4 August 2023, 18:00 PM
UPDATED 5 August 2023, 00:25 AM
Migrants are being systematically turned away by France at the border with Italy with “acts of violence, degrading and inhumane treatment”, the Doctors Without Borders (MSF) charity said yesterday.

Migrants are being systematically turned away by France at the border with Italy with "acts of violence, degrading and inhumane treatment", the Doctors Without Borders (MSF) charity said yesterday.

People spoken to by an MSF team between February and June in the Italian city of Ventimiglia on the border, reported recurrent procedural violations by French officials, and indifference from Italian ones.