In a ruling handed down on Wednesday 21 June (Case C-9/16), the European Court of Justice (ECJ) says that identity checks carried out near borders, and on trains and at stations, with a view to preventing illegal entry into a member state, are possible when national regulations specify and limit these checks so that they cannot be considered equivalent to border checks.
In April 2014, a person by the name of A was stopped for an identity check when he had just crossed the Pont de l'Europe...