How monitoring was done

Monitors did not wait for a ministry press line. They sat with people who had just been returned, wrote down the sequence of the night, and kept the notes in a folder that counsel could open the next morning.

A typical desk asked for the last country entered, whether an asylum claim was spoken aloud, who held the phones, and whether a medical check happened. Photos were taken only with consent. Clothes drying on a fence or a sleeping place under an underpass were treated as context, not as decoration.

Why the photos stay here

The Ventimiglia underpass picture and the border-wall frame were part of the 2020 site, not later stock. We keep those files at their original upload paths. If a classroom or a legal clinic still points at them, the image should load.

Night work needed a working office connection as much as a notebook. When mobile data jammed along a corridor, the desk LAN was what let a visiting lawyer pull the statement folder. That habit is described on the field desk and the office security page. It is an archive note, not a product offer.