French police cut soles off migrant children's shoes, claims Oxfam

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French police cut soles off migrant children's shoes, claims Oxf..

French border police have been accused of detaining migrant children as young as 12 in cells without food or water, cutting the soles off their shoes and stealing sim cards from their mobile phones, before illegally sending them back to Italy.

A report released on Friday by the charity Oxfam also cites the case of a “very young” Eritrean girl, who was forced to walk back to the Italian border town of Ventimiglia along a road with no pavement while carrying her 40-day-old baby.

The allegations, which come from testimony gathered by Oxfam workers and partner organisations, come two months after French border police were accused of falsifying the birth dates of unaccompanied migrant children in an attempt to pass them off as adults and send them back to Italy.

Capitani said unaccompanied minors had for some time been sent back to Italy by French police, although it was only in March that they allegedly began falsifying birth dates on “refusal of entry” documents – one month after a court in Nice ruled that border authorities had illegally detained and returned children to Italy in 20 cases.

A note on Eritrea for all those "economic migrant" memesters:

Is Eritrea Becoming The North Korea Of Africa?

'The North Korea of Africa': Where You Need a Permit to Have Dinner With Friends
Limitations on freedom of movement are just the tip of the iceberg in Eritrea - one the harshest dictatorships in the world.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/06/12/the-brutal-dictatorship-the-world-keeps-ignoring/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.8edd04796856