(ANSA) - Bolzano, August 16 - Austria has deployed 70
soldiers to help police conduct checks at its border with Italy,
near the Brenner Pass, territorial military commander Herbert
Bauer announced on Wednesday.
"This does not mean," local police chief Helmut Tomac said,
"that Panzers will be deployed there as well."
Austria has threatened in the past to shut the Brenner Pass
if Italy were to give migrants humanitarian visas to travel
across Europe, a possibility Rome has aired but since ruled out.
Austria sends 70 soldiers to Brenner (2)
'To step up checks but no tanks'