Getting into Italy for Genoa - Border Controls

The basic message is that you will get in, though there may be delays.

The border is open, but there will be special controls during the summit and for several days before hand. These controls have been agreed with the Interior and Foreign Ministries. The controls shouldn’t apply to you if you fly toanother destination, like Turin.

• You will need a passport. This applies even if you normally enter Italy with an identity card under the Schengen agreement (Schengen is suspended.) If you are not a UK national, check out your position by contacting the Italian embassy, or the embassy for your own country.

• The border police will probably search you. Do not bring anything illegal.

• If you have been arrested at a previous anti-capitalist demo - especially at an international one like Prague or Nice - you will not be allowed into Italy. This applies even if you were arrested but not charged. If this applies to you, get to Italy as soon as you can - before the special controls start at the border. Or fly to another destination and get the bus to Genoa. If you have paid for a ticket on GR transport, contact us for a refund.

• If you are coming in a group, the group should let the Genoa Social Forum (GSF) know whenyou expect to arrive. The GSF brings together all the groups protesting at Genoa. They will inform the border police when you are coming, so that they will have enough officers to search and process you.

• The French organisation ATTAC will be providing help at motorway service stations on the French side of the border. They will do this from Sunday 15 July.

• Genoa Social Forum will be at the border with Italian MPs and lawyers.