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What happens at Italy’s western door to northern Europe when migration crises put EU external borders under pressure?

Monica Pinna went to Ventimiglia, at the French-Italian border, to take the pulse of this historic migrant runway.

The Italian town of Ventimiglia, some eight kilometres away from the border with France, has been the background of a constant migration crisis for the last eight years.

In 2015, France reintroduced internal border controls, systematically turning Ventimiglia into a bottleneck for migrants trying to reach Northern European countries.

Once a week, Filippo, a retired builder, drives families rejected by the French police back to the station of Ventimiglia.

"It is a continuous and silent massacre that obviously doesn’t have the proportions of the one in the Mediterranean Sea, but which unfortunately takes place in the centre of Europe”, states Jacopo Colomba, Legal advisor for the ONG WeWorld.

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