Shameless people smugglers drop off migrants on hard shoulder of high-speed motorway
French police have arrested 70 migrants on the A8 near Nice since the beginning of the year and 20 last weekend.
The migrants pay the smugglers €150 each to be transported from Ventimiglia in Italy across the border to France.
Police have called the situation “unbearable” and fear serious accidents might happen.
It is thought that the people smugglers often carry two or three migrants each time in their vehicles.
They pick them up from the train station in the Italian town and drop them off just after the French border on the hard shoulder with cars speedily driving past.
On Monday, a 44-year-old Morrocan was sentenced by a court in Nice to 18 months in prison for smuggling migrants across the border.
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