The Guardian | 12.04.2018
Charities accuse border officials of trying to pass minors off as adults to return them to Italy
Seven Italian charities have accused French border police of falsifying the birth dates of migrant children travelling alone in an attempt to pass them off as adults and send them back to Italy.
In an appeal to the European commission and Italy’s interior ministry, the charities highlighted evidence of two cases in which birth dates appeared to have been modified on “refusal of entry” documents.
One of the alleged incidents happened in March when charity staff were monitoring the situation around the Italian border town of Ventimiglia.