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French riot police battle the migrants queueing to get into Britain
The Daily Mail (U.K.) ^ | September 22, 2007

Posted on 09/22/2007 8:11:52 AM PDT by Stoat

French riot police battle the migrants queueing to get into Britain

Last updated at 15:15pm on 22nd September 2007

  Riot police are patrolling French ports to combat the increasing violence caused by illegal immigrants bound for Britain.

 

The authorities in Calais, Cherbourg and Dunkirk have complained they are increasingly powerless to cope with the growing numbers congregating in makeshift camps.

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makeshift camps in France

Immigrants throw rocks at unwelcome guests in the port

Bernard Cazeneuve, Calais's mayor, said these camps "generate violence" and "create a situation which we are not able to control".

He called for proper facilities to be provided for migrants, raising the spectre of a second Sangatte.

The notorious Red Cross centre, close to the entrance of the Channel Tunnel near Calais, attracted thousands of immigrants before it was closed in 2002.

However, the French president has pledged that another Sangatte will not be built.

Instead, Nicolas Sarkozy has reacted to the refugee problem with increasingly heavy-handed policing.

On Thursday, the CRS, elite police more usually associated with quelling urban disturbances, arrived in Normandy and began 24-hour patrols.

"We are here because local forces are having difficulty coping with the growing menace caused by illegal immigrants," said a spokesman.

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A makeshift camp in Cherbourg

In Cherbourg, up to 160 wouldbe asylum seekers try to jump on to lorries heading for Britain every night, according to the ferry port's management.

Serge Henry, the port director, said urgent action is needed. "The problems never end and, if anything, are getting worse."

Police guarding the area are stretched to the limit, but almost 300 a week are arrested.

Officers said troublemakers are arrested on a regular basis.

But as immigrants have no fixed abode, or official papers, dealing with them is difficult.

"In many cases, there is absolutely nothing we can do," said a police spokesman.

"They do not want to claim asylum here. All they want to do is get to Britain.

"It is a major problem for both countries."

Mr Sarkozy has pledged to deport 25,000 illegal immigrants this year.

The mayors urged him to stop French ports becoming a base from which to get into Britain.

In response to their calls, immigration minister Brice Hortefeux ordered the CRS to the northern ports.

The mayors said the immigrants are often from war-torn countries such as Iraq and Afghanistan, but there are also economic immigrants attracted to Britain by social security benefits.

Others hope to work in Britain's burgeoning black economy, they said.

Mr Hortefeux told the National Assembly in Paris: "We have to reinforce the police presence."

One of the largest makeshift camps in Cherbourg is on a stretch of industrial wasteland overlooking the harbour.

One immigrant, claiming to be a 24-year-old Iraqi, said: "All we want to do is get to Britain.

"The police attack us and treat us badly.

"We have no food or accommodation or toilets, so it is little surprise that some of us get into trouble.

"When this trouble happens it makes us even more determined to get to Britain."

A spokesman for the French homelessness charity Terre d'Asile said: "It appears that the strategy is to beat the illegal immigrants out of France so that they become someone else's problem.

"Any refugee involved in any kind of trouble is normally hauled before a judge and deported. The rest are left to plot their journeys across the sea.

"The situation is getting completely out of hand, and countries like Britain are finding themselves at the centre of all the problems."


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: britain; england; france; greatbritain; immigration; uk; unitedkingdom
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To: junta

Ha! We were writing at the same time. That book was very prophetic, wasn’t it?


21 posted on 09/22/2007 8:43:37 AM PDT by WVNan
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To: sageb1

economic immigrants attracted to Britain by social security benefits.

mmmmmm those would be ‘welfare immigrants’, economic immigrants would be going for a job.


22 posted on 09/22/2007 8:45:11 AM PDT by sheana
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To: sageb1

No one want to see anyone killed, but there is a massive economic and social cost associated with political correctness. Even beyond that, Western civilization itself may be in jepoardy. If a small number of deaths (to get out the message that we mean business) can forstall those costs, then I’m all for it. Its kind of like when a show of force by England/France when the Germans remilitarized the Rhineland might have averted WWII.

Of course, there will be those who say that it is abhorrent to take innocent life. However, we are not talking fetuses here. I would argue that these immigrants are far from innocent. Many come here already wishing us ill. For many others, whatever gratitude they have about escaping their homeland and coming to the West frequently vanishes after their first trip to the mosque.


23 posted on 09/22/2007 8:45:57 AM PDT by rbg81 (DRAIN THE SWAMP!!)
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To: WVNan

See 19.


24 posted on 09/22/2007 8:46:52 AM PDT by Travis McGee (--www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com--)
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To: Travis McGee

Gee, I didn’t know you were an “enthusiastic supporter of busty women.”


25 posted on 09/22/2007 8:47:59 AM PDT by WVNan
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To: Stoat
I must have missed the religious designation of the "immigrants" in the article. I see Iraq, Afghanistan, but no mention of Islam or muslim.

Maybe I missed it?

5.56mm

26 posted on 09/22/2007 8:48:38 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: Stoat

“In many cases, there is absolutely nothing we can do,” said a police spokesman.”

How about just shooting them. It will eventually get to this point. Send them back to their wonderful homelands in body bags made of pig skin.


27 posted on 09/22/2007 8:49:23 AM PDT by garyhope
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To: All
But not to Calais and Dunkirk?

On Thursday, the CRS, elite police more usually associated with quelling urban disturbances, arrived in Normandy and began 24-hour patrols.

28 posted on 09/22/2007 8:49:53 AM PDT by Ready4Freddy ("Everyone knows there's a difference between Muslims and terrorists. No one knows what it is, tho...)
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To: WVNan

I think that Susy Buchanan of the SPLC must be an anorexic Olive Oyl. She really couldn’t find anything of merit (other than the reconquista theme) to condemn in the book, so she somehow fixed on the few boobs in the book.


30 posted on 09/22/2007 8:50:50 AM PDT by Travis McGee (--www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com--)
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To: Stoat
One immigrant, claiming to be a 24-year-old Iraqi, said:
"All we want to do is get to Britain.


He is probably afraid he won't get there in time to be another
b-tchin', complaining, burden on the state...
before the UK collapses under the load.
31 posted on 09/22/2007 8:51:52 AM PDT by VOA
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To: JackRyanCIA

The cathedrals of Europe will be mosques in our lifetimes. The muezzin will call from the former spires, and the remaining Frenchmen will shrug, while their wives and daughters will wear the hijab to avoid rape.


32 posted on 09/22/2007 8:52:11 AM PDT by Travis McGee (--www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com--)
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To: Travis McGee

Personally, I see nothing wrong with a red-blooded male’s interest in large....ahem...breats. Gotta run.


33 posted on 09/22/2007 8:52:22 AM PDT by WVNan
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To: hinckley buzzard
What many don't realize is that instigating this kind of trouble is a tactic of the hard left

What else could explain their apparent complicity in what so obviously is a major problem? The bastards need to be blasted out of the nooks & crannies of power in which they've so dilligently wedged themselves. Before they succeed in their goal.

34 posted on 09/22/2007 8:55:30 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: sageb1

Hahaha


36 posted on 09/22/2007 9:13:18 AM PDT by VaBthang4 ("He Who Watches Over Israel Will Neither Slumber Nor Sleep")
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To: Stoat

It sounds like the French may have reached down and found them.


37 posted on 09/22/2007 9:27:10 AM PDT by BBell
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To: patton

That’s right, there’s a real obvious solution. (The Seattle Bum Solution — build them condos, provide food and clothing; the southern Mexico border — ship them BACK.)


38 posted on 09/22/2007 10:03:16 AM PDT by bboop (Stealth Tutor)
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To: Travis McGee

I’ll get off my duff and order both of them. With the SPLC do not take the defensive because it is they who should have to answer for what they do.


39 posted on 09/22/2007 11:41:02 AM PDT by junta (It's Jihad stupid! It's the borders stupid! It's Political Correctness stupid!)
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To: WVNan
"Personally, I see nothing wrong with a red-blooded male's interest in large....ahem...breats.

I assume your typo should have read 'brats', and I couldn't agree with you more.

40 posted on 09/22/2007 11:41:37 AM PDT by diogenes ghost
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