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French riot police use PEPPER SPRAY to deter African migrants trying to cross at the Italian border

Dramatic footage shows hundreds of migrants trying to enter France

Some try and cross via the rocky beach where police squirt pepper spray

But more than 100 managed to get past police barriers into France

The migrants are now under supervision of French police

By HARRIET MALLINSON FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 20:00 GMT, 5 August 2016 | UPDATED: 13:02 GMT, 6 August 2016

Hoards of African migrants clamour to be let passed on the street, some face the peril of the treacherous rocks by the beach in their desperation and all the while determined policeman dressed in riot gear stand their ground.

Dramatic footage from the Italian border town of Ventimiglia has captured the attempts of hundreds of men, women and children - mostly Sudanese, Eritreans and Ethiopians - to cross into France from Italy.

More than 100 migrants managed to break through police barriers at Balzi Rossi beach - despite officers' attempt to deter them with pepper spray as video from the town shows.




Dramatic footage from the Italian border town of Ventimiglia has captured the attempts of hundreds of
men, women and children to cross into France from Italy


More than 100 migrants managed to break through police barriers at Balzi Rossi beach
- despite officers' attempt to deter them with pepper spray as video from the town shows

When failing to pass the riot police on the road the more adventurous men head down to the rocky beach, dashed by the agitated sea, in attempt to side step officials.

One man can even be seen swimming out in the Mediterranean.

It was not immediately clear how they got past police cordons.

After breaking through the 'successful' migrants stopped on rocks near the port at the French Riviera town of Menton.

They were still there in the evening under the surveillance of French police, said Ventimiglia police commander Giorgio Marenco.

'Both the Italian and French forces at the border were taken by surprise,' Marenco said.


When failing to pass the riot police on the road the more adventurous men head down to the rocky
beach, dashed by the agitated sea, in attempt to side step officials


It wasn't at first clear how they got past police cordons. 'Both the Italian and French forces at the
border were taken by surprise,' said Ventimiglia police commander Giorgio Marenco


One man can even be seen swimming out in the Mediterranean. Many of the hundreds of migrants who
arrive by boat in Italy every day aim for northern Europe

The French Interior Ministry and representatives of the Alpes-Maritimes region around Menton were not available for comment.

Many of the hundreds of migrants who arrive by boat in Italy every day aim for northern Europe.

Ventimiglia's craggy seashore became the site of a temporary migrant camp last year, which was later cleared away by police.

Most of the more than 94,000 people who have arrived in Italy by boat this year travelled from sub-Saharan Africa to Libya where people smugglers, who have taken advantage of the breakdown of order there, charged them hundreds of dollars for the passage, often in unseaworthy boats.


Ventimiglia's craggy seashore became the site of a temporary migrant camp last year, which was later
cleared away by police


Most of the more than 94,000 people who have arrived in Italy by boat this year travelled from
sub-Saharan Africa to Libya where people smugglers exort and endanger them


'The migrants who have reached Ventimiglia over the past three years have one aim: to pass into
France,' Marenco said

The city of about 24,000 residents opened a reception centre to house the hundreds of migrants who had been sleeping rough under a bridge.

About 150 migrants left the centre shortly after midnight on Thursday and walked to the shore, where they remained for hours before heading for France.

Another group of migrants who abandoned crossing at Balzi Rossi beach tried to reach France by walking along the rail tracks.

One teenager was hit by a train during the treacherous journey and had to be transferred by helicopter to the San Martino Hospital in Genoa. He remains intubated and in a serious condition.

'The migrants who have reached Ventimiglia over the past three years have one aim: to pass into France,' Marenco said.

French riot police use PEPPER SPRAY to deter African migrants trying ...

The result of killing Gaddafi......He often warned that he could unleash africa on europe - and now you see w/o his control of north africa, what is happening.

His killers, hillary/obama are incompetent & dangerously pathetic excuses for leaders. If obama picked you, you are incompetent because he has no idea what he is doing . He prefers to follow an agenda of wealth redistribution and the spread of islam. That is why we have open borders & EU is being invaded. Some EU countries were also involved with the take down of Gaddafi. Perhaps they are also involved with the spread of islam for whatever deals that where struck.

The UN is heavily involved with that plan and globalism is part of it too. Making the rich richer as big corporations control everything eventually & our countries degraded to populations of low IQ, inbred butchers of humans, drug cartels, a wasted society that will be easily controlled, manipulated.