A No Borders group of activists walk along the seaside during a spontaneous march in Ventimiglia, Italy, Sunday, Aug. 7, 2016, after calling off an unauthorized protest as Italian border police detained three people trying to cross into Italy from France armed with clubs, knives, a hatchet, a wrench and hoods.
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Migrants walk on the rocks as they try to get to the sea past a police cordon in Ventimiglia, an Italian town on the border with France. The news were confirmed by the local Italian police chief. After breaking through the “successful” migrants stopped on rocks near the port at the French Riviera town of Menton.
Ventimiglia police commander Giorgio Marenco said they were under surveillance of French police.
One man can even be seen swimming out in the Mediterranean.
Migrants have been left stranded in Ventimiglia, the last train station before the Italian French border.
More than 100 people did manage to get through the police blockade, despite attempts to deter them.
Numerous migrants were Haitians, he said, who had gone to Brazil after a 2010 natural disaster devastated their country.
Ventimiglia hosted a temporary migrant camp a year ago, but this was cleared away by police.
The European migrant crisis began a year ago, when thousands of refugees started making their way to Europe.
According to the RaiNews 24 broadcaster, the detainees allegedly planned to partake in demonstration of the global No Border group which will protest against restraints on free movement of migrants in Europe later in the day in Ventimiglia.
Migrants sit in their rubber dinghy during a rescue operation by Italian navy ship Borsini (unseen) off the coast of Sicily, Italy, in this handout picture courtesy of the Italian Marina Militare released July 19, 2016. In April, it was reported that more than 181,000 migrants and refugees had arrived to Europe in 2016. The majority of the migrants are coming from Syria, where a civil war began five years ago.
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MILAN (AP) – France has returned some 200 migrants to Italy who plunged into the sea to cross into France, evading border controls.
