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{Polish} Van driver dies in Calais {France} crash caused by refugees' blockade
The Guardian ^ | 20 June 2017 | Kim Willsher

Posted on 06/20/2017 4:31:08 AM PDT by Cronos

A van driver has died near Calais after refugees blockaded a motorway with tree trunks, causing a crash in which the vehicle caught fire.

The vehicle, reportedly registered in Poland, ignited early on Tuesday morning after ploughing into a lorry that had been forced to stop because of the obstruction.

French authorities said it was the first time such a makeshift roadblock had caused the death of a driver since the arrival of large numbers of refugees in the area in 2014.

Refugees start to gather in Calais again, months after camp was closed Aid groups say several hundred people, half of them unaccompanied children, have returned to area around French port

The accident happened at about 3.45am on the A16 motorway near Guemps, a farming community five miles south-east of Calais.

“A barrage of tree trunks was set up by migrants on the A16 between junctions 49 and 50,” the local prefecture said in a statement. “This caused the death of the driver of a van registered in Poland. The van hit one of three HGVs blocked by the barrage and caught fire.”

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: france; islam; poland; syria
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1 posted on 06/20/2017 4:31:09 AM PDT by Cronos
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To: Cronos

France’s death wish is killing a lot of foreigners...


2 posted on 06/20/2017 4:33:39 AM PDT by mewzilla (Was ObamaThanks surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articl)
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To: Cronos

The accident happened at about 3.45am on the A16 motorway near Guemps, a farming community five miles south-east of Calais.
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“The accident”


3 posted on 06/20/2017 4:34:20 AM PDT by youngidiot (God will bless you for doing what you ought to be doing any damned way. He's amazing.)
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To: mewzilla

And the ID of the driver was difficult to establish due to burns. But there are others ways, aren’t there. So why no ID yet...?


4 posted on 06/20/2017 4:35:14 AM PDT by mewzilla (Was ObamaThanks surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articl)
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To: Cronos

Quick to name the driver in London, but where is the ID of the Paris driver? OK! So the Paris driver got singed a bit!


5 posted on 06/20/2017 4:35:43 AM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: Cronos

Take a good look at this wild video shot by a Hungarian truck driver in Calais, then run a web search for Calais truck driver. There are countless others. They knew this was a problem years ago.

https://youtu.be/382njADcWvE


6 posted on 06/20/2017 4:39:32 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: Cronos

The Guardian, being an extremist left-wing paper, does not allow for reader comments. Typical. The more leftist a paper, the more likely no user comments are allowed on stories. They have spoken. The slaves would just shut up. (Because if they did allow comments, I would suspect they’d be harsh against the sort of elitist lunacy of allowing this cancer into Europe.)


7 posted on 06/20/2017 4:41:35 AM PDT by Flick Lives
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To: mewzilla
To be fair, this is not France's death wish. Angela Merkel invited them in and the Brits give refugee. France was the mid-way point - the Brits didn't want to receive these people so they were stuck at Calais.

The French broke the Calais jungle camp, but the people came back

8 posted on 06/20/2017 4:41:48 AM PDT by Cronos (Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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To: Cronos

Well, that’s simply going to further cement Poland’s opposition to migrants.


9 posted on 06/20/2017 4:44:32 AM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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To: Cronos
French authorities said it was the first time such a makeshift roadblock had caused the death of a driver since the arrival of large numbers of refugees in the area in 2014

So it was commonplace before then?

10 posted on 06/20/2017 4:47:43 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: Cronos

Au contraire, mon ami. Unless France would like to argue it’s not an autonomous nation, the French have a choice. Or rather, they had one. This has been decades in the making. All Merkel is doing is speeding the decent.


11 posted on 06/20/2017 4:48:39 AM PDT by mewzilla (Was ObamaThanks surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articl)
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To: Cronos

I support napalming refugee camps every time a refugee steps out of line.


12 posted on 06/20/2017 4:50:09 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Islam: You have to just love a "religion" based on rape and sex slavery.)
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To: RegulatorCountry

Language warning, by the way. More than just salty.


13 posted on 06/20/2017 4:51:16 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: Cronos
French authorities said it was the first time such a makeshift roadblock had caused the death of a driver…

This statement implies that these improvised barriers are common where the "refugees" accumulate.
14 posted on 06/20/2017 4:52:31 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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They are. Hordes of them sauntering down the highway in broad daylight throw9ng debris into the roadway, they cause traffic to stop and then break into the trailers.


15 posted on 06/20/2017 4:54:03 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: youngidiot

Set on by modern day highwaymen. A shotgun would be ideal in repelling them. Where are the local frog police? If you have foreign invaders blockading highways, that’s a problem.


16 posted on 06/20/2017 4:58:18 AM PDT by csvset ( Illegitimi non carborundum)
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To: Cronos

Most of the deaths by Muslim in Europe are on Merkel’s head. I wish a European country (Poland, Hungary, etc) with some stones would figure out a way to fire a cruise missile at a venue where Merkel is speaking in public and end that arrogant #$&*#.

Both of my parents have visited Germany (pre-Merkel even) and commented on the arrogance radiating there.


17 posted on 06/20/2017 5:12:26 AM PDT by baltimorepoet
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To: mewzilla

France is covering up the fact that the country is basically a war zone.

They’re now about to hit the magic 10% muslim population threshold. Historically, social collapse isn’t far behind once that happens.


18 posted on 06/20/2017 5:13:58 AM PDT by KyCats
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To: Cronos

Refugees? What sort of refugees?


19 posted on 06/20/2017 5:14:51 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: KyCats

I thank God daily these days for both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans...


20 posted on 06/20/2017 5:17:50 AM PDT by mewzilla (Was ObamaThanks surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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