French police attempt to deport sans-papiers to Italy on a public train

According to railway workers, on 15th March French police requisitioned a carriage of a train to try and send 20 sans-papier back to Italy. At 9.30am a ticket inspector found 7 border police on a platform in Cannes with the sans-papiers. She asked the police if they had travel documents for everyone, they said that they did not intend to put them on board the train. However the police then boarded the two-carriage train, asked all the passengers in the front carriage to move to the back one, and then got on the front carriage with the sans-papiers. At Nice station the police told the driver and the ticket inspector that they would get off the train at Menton, as they cannot go to Italy.

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