By sea The CGLPL has examined a forced removal by sea for the first time. The escorts present during this mission had recognised, solid experience, belonging as they did to a specialist unit of the local directorate of the South border police. Improvements may be or have been made between the mission and the dispatch of the CGLPL's inspection report. That said, the conditions in which the person being removed is accommodated in the ship must be improved. The latter is not afforded any privacy, since the toilets are watched by CCTV cameras, is not given anything to do, cannot turn the lights off in his/her cabin, and has no means of knowing what time it is. S/he is not given any information about how the removal process is going either. The documents handed to the authorities of the State of destination The procedural documents to be handed to the foreign authorities are formally defined when the deported person is being escorted. Unlike what the CGLPL observed in 2014-2015, the list of documents to be handed to the foreign authorities is now formally defined. Police officers thus hand over the original identity documents along with a copy of the obligation to leave French soil (OQTF). It is nevertheless necessary that, for people removed without an escort team, the documents handed to the captain are subject to the same level of sorting; for it is unacceptable that pilots find themselves with the whole of the file compiled by a detention centre for illegal immigrants. Subsistence of removed people in the State of destination The resources of people facing removal are known, for the inventory of their possessions and values is updated at the time they leave French soil. The inspectors have found that certain removed people simply do not have sufficient resources (a penniless lone person, a mother and her three children aged 6 to 8 years old with 30 euros to her name), even when it is known that their relatives live a long way from the airport. The general rule is that France does not pay any allowance in the context of forced returns, but that the authorities of the country of destination are systematically informed several days beforehand of the arrival, so that they are able to organise a suitable reception for the expected removed people. This manner of proceeding is unsatisfactory. According to the information collected by the CGLPL, European States who are members of the FRONTEX agency would seem to give removed persons a subsistence allowance to pay for one day's worth of meals and transport to an identified place. France should at the very least adopt this practice. 3.1.4 The specific situation of the Franco-Italian border This border is under unusually strong migratory pressures: nearly 20,000 people were denied entry over the first eight months of 2017 and 101 non-admissions were pronounced in Menton in a single day during the inspectors' visit in September. Most of the people not admitted are men. Mobile security forces and military officials are available to the border police for carrying out systematic checks at seven authorised crossing points (rail and road routes), in addition to the border police teams. People who are picked up during the day are taken to the Menton border police premises and handed over to the Italian authorities or taken to the train station to be returned to Italy by train. People who are picked up after 7pm, when the Italian base closes, spend the night in the border police premises under conditions which do not come under any legal framework and are physically inadequate (lack of space and privacy, no facilities including beds, chairs, lighting or air conditioning). Cleaning is only scheduled for the washrooms, but is not carried out owing to the premises being occupied, and litter is left on-site). 28