A complaint for the abandonment of minors has been filed with the Nice prosecutor’s office to denounce a series of deportations of foreign minors to Italy instead of placing them in care homes, announced the association Roya Citoyenne*, which helps migrants arriving from Ventimiglia.
This “complaint against X” was filed by over 250 people, mostly residents of the Franco-Italian valley of Roya.
The complaint cites facts proving that the offense of “abandonment of a person unable to protect themselves” is established, according to lawyer Françoise Cotta. “These minors suffer intensely from this situation. They are completely isolated, therefore vulnerable.”
The president of the Alpes-Maritimes departmental council, Eric Ciotti, targeted by this initiative and who is in favor of a “hard” line against immigration, announced that he had just reported to the justice system the organization, by “a handful of activists,” of the “clandestine passage of foreigners at the Franco-Italian border,” he wrote in a statement.
On Friday, during the public session of the Departmental Council, he accused these activists of behaving like “delinquents” by being complicit in illegal activities in the name of an extremist ideology and not for humanitarian reasons.
“I will not let the Roya Valley become a second Notre Dame des Landes,” he said, calling on state services for greater firmness and the judiciary to condemn these actions.
A heated exchange followed with Francis Tujague, the mayor of Contes, who refused his accusations.
