“The police are blocking the border. We are having breakfast on the rocks. We are not going back,” read a Facebook post.
Migrants who have been turned back at the French border have gathered along the coast near Ventimiglia since June. Police have repeatedly tried to clear the area.
More than 130,000 migrants have arrived in Italy by boat so far this year, making it a frontline country along with Greece for Europe’s biggest immigration crisis since World War Two. France refuses to let them cross the border because, according to EU law, the migrants are Italy’s responsibility.
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