(AFP) Several thousand people protested Saturday on the France-Italy border against European states closing their frontiers to migrants, AFP journalists said.
They said about 3,000 people — mostly Italian, French, German, Dutch and Spanish — marched from the small Italian town of Ventimiglia the four kilometres (2.5 miles) to the border with France which has imposed tight restrictions in an effort to turn back an influx of migrants.
There was a heavy police presence.
“A dignified welcome for refugees in a Europe without frontiers,” one poster read while others recalled the hundreds of migrants who have lost their lives on the risky Mediterranean sea crossing from North Africa.
