Swiss border guards have been accused of failing to help a pregnant Syrian migrant sent back to Italy who later lost her child, according to Swiss public television SRF. The Swiss and Italian authorities are investigating.

The television programme “10 vor 10” reported on Wednesday that a Syrian migrant couple, together with their two-year-old son, had been travelling on a train from Milan to Paris – which passes through Switzerland – when they were turned back at the French-Swiss border with a group of fellow migrants.

While accompanied on the train back to Italy by Swiss border guards, the seven-month-pregnant woman began to bleed, but her husband’s repeated pleas for help were ignored by the Swiss, he says.

“We wanted to escape the war in Syria, but what did we find here in Europe? Another war and the death of my daughter,” says 32-year-old Omar Jneid, whose wife remains in an Italian hospital.

Italian doctors who treated the 22-year-old woman say her child could have been saved if Swiss authorities had acted right away.
The woman had collapsed on the train platform in Domodossola, Italy – the first stop near the Swiss border – and had been brought to a nearby hospital by ambulance.

Investigations launched

Jürg Noth, the head of the Swiss border police, told Swiss public television he was aware of the incident and is investigating to what extent Swiss border guards were involved.

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The pregnant migrant finally collapsed on the platform of the Domodossola train station, just over the Italian border from Switzerland