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“I was handcufed for two hours and denied access to the toilet”
The main respondent is a 30-year old man from Tunisia. He reports that was arrested several kilometers into France, near Nice, at around 5am on the 5th March 2025.
PAF (police aux frontières) in Menton
He was then taken to a police station, where he was detained over 6 hours, and handcuffed for two of those hours. He reported that when he asked the police officers what his rights in detention were, they informed him that this was not an ‘ordinary detention’ (garde à vue).
He reports that he was then brought to the the border police station of the PAF (police aux frontières) in Menton, released at 15:00 forced to walk into Italy, where he found himself on a long steep road roughly ten kilometers from the next Italian city (Ventimiglia).
overview
1 people ,
from Tunisia,
aged 30.