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Zurich-Paris, one way: Switzerland would have paid for the train to migrants

2021-12-06T17:52:46.779Z


Gérald Darmanin evokes "unacceptable" facts, which the Swiss authorities deny. No less than 41 Afghans arrived Wednesday by train from Zurich, with, according to them, the blessing of the Swiss authorities. Who would have acted without warning Paris and even provided them with the tickets. The case, revealed by Le Parisien , throws a harsh light on known practices. Switzerland is not the only country to direct Afghan migrants to France, which is reputed to be more generous


No less than 41 Afghans arrived Wednesday by train from Zurich, with, according to them, the blessing of the Swiss authorities.

Who would have acted without warning Paris and even provided them with the tickets.

The case, revealed by

Le Parisien

, throws a harsh light on known practices.

Switzerland is not the only country to direct Afghan migrants to France, which is reputed to be more generous in terms of asylum.

She had also warned, last August, that she would not welcome any for the moment.

"Italy and Belgium do the same regularly

,

"

said a senior official, very familiar with the matter.

According to him,

"the administrations of the states concerned do not even have to buy the tickets, usually, since humanitarian associations, financed from public funds, take care of them".

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At the time of the great operation of “sheltering” of 2016 in Calais, for example, when it was necessary to dismantle the “jungle”, it is by whole buses that Brussels dispatched families so that they.

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Source: lefigaro

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