AFP - Some 200 activists of human rights, Italian and French but also of Tunisian immigrants, blocked roads Sunday to the station of Ventimiglia, the French border, where trains to France were canceled.
"We'll stay here until we moved the beds to sleep tonight at Ventimiglia, because we want to take a train to France tomorrow morning," said speaker by a militant Italian.
Activists of Human Rights, many Italians but the French had planned to board a "train the dignity" of Ventimiglia (north-west Italy) starting at 1:17 p.m. (11:17 GMT ) to Nice (southern France), along with Tunisian candidates for immigration.A match was to take some of them to Marseilles.
But in mid-day on all regional trains in the direction of France, was canceled by the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes, said a French controller.Information confirmed by the illuminated signs indicating the train departure.
In Rome, Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini gave "instructions to the Italian ambassador in Paris to express the strong protest of the Italian government" after the cancellation of trains.
Wishing to express their dissatisfaction with the Consulate of France in Ventimiglia, protesters and Tunisian immigrants have been identified in the station area by carabinieri.vest They then ini station.
"The train will depart from Dignity Ventimiglia to cross the border and arrive in Marseille.Italian, French and Migrants, together, will challenge the government to block open borders, guaranteeing free access to European territory, and remember that no human being is illegal ", the organizers had announced in a statement.
