(ANSA) - Turin, March 19 - A French Alpine guide risks five
years in prison for helping a heavily pregnant migrant woman and
her family earlier this month, a humanitarian association said
on Monday.
The Nigerian woman, who was eight months pregnant, her
husband and children aged two and four were trying to cross the
border between Italy and France on March 10.
The guide encountered them amid the snow in the area of
Monginevro at an altitude of around 1,900 metres above sea
level.
He let them into his car and set out to take them to hospital
near Briançon, in France.
But French police stopped the car and took the guide to their
barracks.
He is under investigation by French prosecutors for allegedly
breaching the migration laws.
The woman was taken by ambulance to an emergency room, where
he gave birth.
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