PARIS: of violating its borders and sovereignty after French border police officers stormed a clinic on the Italian side of the border to test a migrant for drugs.
“I’m sorry for the misunderstanding,” France’s Budget Minister Gérald Darmanin, who is also responsible for customs, said in an interview with the Italian daily Corriere della Sera.
“It was an unfortunate incident, which arose over a misunderstanding between French customs and Italian railways about the use of a facility located at Bardonecchia railway station,” he continued.
A diplomatic row erupted between Rome and Paris after armed French customs officers entered a clinic run by the migrant charity Rainbow4Africa on Friday night to force a Nigerian migrant they’d arrested on drug smuggling charges on a Paris-bound train to undergo a urine test.
