{"id":3020,"date":"2015-07-22T04:41:42","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T04:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitederitreamedia.com\/blog12\/?p=3020"},"modified":"2015-07-22T04:42:28","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T04:42:28","slug":"migrants-journeys-stall-in-italy-near-the-french-border-by-aurelien-breedenjuly-20-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitederitreamedia.com\/blog12\/2015\/07\/22\/migrants-journeys-stall-in-italy-near-the-french-border-by-aurelien-breedenjuly-20-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Migrants\u2019 Journeys Stall in Italy, Near the French Border By AURELIEN BREEDENJULY 20, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"
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After being refused entry into France last month, African migrants spent the night near the sea at the French-Italian border close to Ventimiglia, Italy.<\/span> Credit<\/span>Jean-Christophe Magnenet\/Agence France-Presse \u2014 Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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VENTIMIGLIA, Italy \u2014 The train that rumbles along the steep French-Italian coast, shuttling tourists from one picturesque town to another, did not take Abdulhakim Kabeto very far. After it crossed over from Italy<\/a>, police officers in France<\/a> stopped him at the first station in the country and returned him to the border.<\/p>\n

Mr. Kabeto, a 22-year-old Ethiopian who was five months into a grueling journey to Europe, said he never expected that his travels through Sudan and Libya<\/a>, and across the Mediterranean Sea, would then stall in an Italian town just miles from the French border.<\/p>\n

Speaking recently outside a Red Cross center in Ventimiglia, he said he had made five attempts to reach France, on his way to Britain, but had been stuck in Italy for several weeks.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you go by bus, by foot, by train, it\u2019s the same police on the other side,\u201d he said, crouching in the shade to escape the heat. \u201cAnd they send you back.\u201d<\/p>\n