Talleyrand, a fine connoisseur of the hazards of public life, advised his interlocutors: “above all, not too much zeal!”
But obviously, the French customs officers on duty in Bardonecchia must not have read it!
A few weeks after turning away a young Nigerian woman who was pregnant and recently died from a severe illness in a hospital in Turin after giving birth to her baby, they are once again in the headlines!
Italy accuses French customs officers of entering a migrant center without permission.
They are accused of having entered a communal center for migrants to use the toilets and conduct a urine test on an apprehended migrant.
The events took place on Friday evening: interference? (The French ambassador was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for explanations), even though Paris defends the legality of the intervention.
In any case, a needless blunder that clearly shows that the muscular policy implemented by the French state is counterproductive.
The task is difficult, we know, but why complicate it unnecessarily?
Isn’t it better to act “cum grano salis” and not to consider themselves Rambos?
