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Calais Truck Drivers: ‘It’s War Out There’ Because Of Migrants
Breitbart London ^ | 11/26/15 | Donna Rachel Edmunds

Posted on 11/26/2015 6:15:16 AM PST by markomalley

The level of intimidation faced lorry drivers passing through Calais at the hands of migrants is “out of control” and “totally unacceptable”, a spokesman for Britain’s road haulage industry has said. His association has now set up a hotline for drivers to report threatening behaviour by migrants, but drivers using the route have dismissed it as “useless,” saying “it’s a war out there!”

Around 6,000 migrants are currently gathered at Calais, looking for an opportunity to make it across the English Channel into Britain. As their numbers swell, so they are becoming more brazen in their attempts to climb on board lorries headed to the UK.

Drivers have described being threatened at knife and gun point, being beaten with baseball bats and having their trailers slashed as migrants force their way on board, describing the situation as “a war”.

Earlier this year freight firm boss Kevin Hopper said: “It’s just a matter of time now before someone is killed.”

In a bid to tackle the problem the Road Hauliers Association (RHA) has set up a “Calais Incident Reporting Hotline”, handing out thousands of cards featuring the hotline number. They claim that by keeping a record of the intimidation drivers face, they can make sure protection is put in place.

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1 posted on 11/26/2015 6:15:16 AM PST by markomalley
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To: markomalley

Round them up.

Ship them back.

Send out the French Navy to make sure NO more cross the Mediterranean.


2 posted on 11/26/2015 6:17:14 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

if they are killed in Calais, they can’t get through the tunnel

If it is truly war, then killing is justified


3 posted on 11/26/2015 6:21:23 AM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPyes but now I must concentratc.;+12, 73, ....carson is the kinder gentler trumping.)
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To: markomalley
But they are refugees just like the pilgrims.

It is ok if they stab and kill people.

4 posted on 11/26/2015 6:23:27 AM PST by detective
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To: markomalley

It is an invasion. The really sick part being our so called “leadership” is financing the invasion with our money.


5 posted on 11/26/2015 6:25:20 AM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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To: markomalley

I predicted this when I heard about Calais as a migrant camp, but I thought they’d be launching boats. Calais is the closest point to England on the Channel.


6 posted on 11/26/2015 6:26:06 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: detective

No, no, no. They are refugees just like Jesus in Egypt. < sarc/off >


7 posted on 11/26/2015 6:27:15 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: All

Google image ‘calais migrants’ to get a better idea of the situation.


8 posted on 11/26/2015 6:27:42 AM PST by SpaceBar
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To: markomalley

Seems to me an enterprising MC club or Italian social club might consider this an opportunity to provide security on a fee-for-service basis...


9 posted on 11/26/2015 6:35:33 AM PST by BlueNgold (May I suggest a very nice 1788 Article V with your supper...)
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To: SpaceBar

10 posted on 11/26/2015 6:45:30 AM PST by BwanaNdege
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS
Yep, it looks like a big chemistry experiment, kinda like making a society-sized IED.

It looks like someone evil is dumping a huge amount of highly reactive catalyst into a more or less stable, somewhat heterogeneous mixture, apparently just to see the exothermic reaction.

I keep having this mental picture of an evil someone somewhere laughing and telling his evil buddies:
"Hey, watch this. This is gonna blow up real good!"

Hindsight is 20/20 and we'll look back and see how this and we were played.

While chaos is a given, there appears to be nothing random about obama's foreign policy plans for the Middle East and beyond.

One thing leads to another...

11 posted on 11/26/2015 6:57:35 AM PST by GBA (There Are FOUR Lights!)
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To: markomalley
England's old fear comes true.


12 posted on 11/26/2015 7:43:11 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: markomalley

Coming soon to America.


13 posted on 11/26/2015 7:49:34 AM PST by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: markomalley

I see a potential job opportunity. Riding shot gun.


14 posted on 11/26/2015 7:54:29 AM PST by Graybeard58 (Bill and Hillary Clinton are the penicillin-resistant syphilis of our political system.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

...refugees just like Jesus in Egypt.....

Or the Moors in Spain.
Or the Turk’s in Constantinople, the Mongols in China, the Japanese in the Philippines, the Germans in Poland....

All just poor, misunderstood, freedom loving refugees.


15 posted on 11/26/2015 8:11:42 AM PST by oldvirginian (American by birth, Southern by the grace of a loving God and Virginian because Jesus loves me.)
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To: Graybeard58

Or riding ma deuce.


16 posted on 11/26/2015 8:13:01 AM PST by MortMan (I am offended by those who believe they have a right not to be offended.)
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To: markomalley

Too bad the truckers are not armed.


17 posted on 11/26/2015 10:21:54 AM PST by CPT Clay (Hillary: Julius and Ethal Rosenberg were electrocuted for selling classified info.)
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To: markomalley
Mayor of Calais calls for military assistance
After police battled yesterday with 'migrants' from the camps as they attacked lorries on route to England, the Mayor of Calais, Natacha Bouchart, reiterates call for military assistance:
"Alors que les forces de police se sont trouvees en grave difficulte hier soir, je reitere mon appel a l'intervention de l'armee a #Calais"
Twitter @NatachaBouchart
18 posted on 11/26/2015 2:49:43 PM PST by Mr Radical
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To: BlueNgold
Seems to me an enterprising MC club or Italian social club might consider this an opportunity to provide security on a fee-for-service basis.

That's the second thought that came to mind while reading this.

The first, In a bid to tackle the problem the Road Hauliers Association (RHA) has set up a "Calais Incident Reporting Hotline" I was thinking of the "RHA Protection Volunteer Society".

19 posted on 11/26/2015 4:08:34 PM PST by Oatka (ES)
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To: markomalley

Bfl


20 posted on 11/26/2015 6:23:19 PM PST by gibsosa
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