(AFP) A French court handed six-month jail terms to three members of a far-right group for erecting a blockade on an Alps mountain pass to try [to] keep migrants out.
On April 21, 2018, several dozen members of the Generation Identitaire (Generation Identity) group marched to the Echelle pass on the French-Italian border and unrolled a fence of plastic netting in the snow.
They also displayed a sign reading: “You will not make Europe home! NO WAY. Back to your homeland.”
The group, which included Germans, Italians and Austrians as well as French activists, all wore blue padded jackets marked “Defend Europe” and were backed by two rented helicopters which scoured the area for migrants.
