A Member State may not impose criminal penalties on a third-country national who has entered its territory illegally for aiding the illegal entry of minors accompanying him or her and over whom that person has effective custody, ruled the Court of Justice of the European Union in a judgment handed down on Tuesday 3 June (case C-460/23).
In Italy, a third-country national presented herself at the border at Bologna airport with her daughter and niece using false passports. She was arrested...