OT: Clashes as groups still trying to get into the UK
Fri Feb 02, 2018 8:50 am
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-42912670
At least five migrants have been shot in the French port city of Calais, after a mass brawl between Afghans and Eritreans.
Four Eritrean youths aged 16-18 are in a critical condition and have been rushed to a local hospital for surgery, AFP news agency reports.
A fifth man was taken to nearby Lille due to the severity of his injuries.
At least 13 more people were wounded due to "blows from iron bars", the local prosecutor's office said.
French Interior Minister Gérard Collomb visited Calais overnight and said the clashes had been exceptionally serious. One of the most seriously wounded was said to have been hit by a bullet in the back of the neck.
"There's been an escalation of violence that has become unbearable for both the people of Calais and the migrants," the minister said.
The initial fight, which lasted almost two hours, broke out on the city's southern outskirts where migrants had been queuing for food handouts. Around 100 Eritreans and some 30 Afghans were caught up in the violence.
It started when an Afghan fired shots, AFP said.
A second melee then erupted at an industrial site around 5km (three miles) away.
"Police intervened to protect the Afghan migrants faced with 150 to 200 Eritrean migrants," the local prefecture said.
No new 'Jungle' camp in Calais - Macron
French security forces have been sent to the area.
This is the worst violence between migrants in Calais for months, and the use of firearms is a worrying escalation of the tensions, the BBC's Hugh Schofield in Paris reports.
Though the Calais migrant camp known as the Jungle was demolished in 2016, hundreds of migrants are still living rough in the nearby woods, hoping to reach the UK.
Many of those left are young men.
Local charities put the number of such migrants living in Calais at around 800, while the authorities say there are between 550 and 600.
At least five migrants have been shot in the French port city of Calais, after a mass brawl between Afghans and Eritreans.
Four Eritrean youths aged 16-18 are in a critical condition and have been rushed to a local hospital for surgery, AFP news agency reports.
A fifth man was taken to nearby Lille due to the severity of his injuries.
At least 13 more people were wounded due to "blows from iron bars", the local prosecutor's office said.
French Interior Minister Gérard Collomb visited Calais overnight and said the clashes had been exceptionally serious. One of the most seriously wounded was said to have been hit by a bullet in the back of the neck.
"There's been an escalation of violence that has become unbearable for both the people of Calais and the migrants," the minister said.
The initial fight, which lasted almost two hours, broke out on the city's southern outskirts where migrants had been queuing for food handouts. Around 100 Eritreans and some 30 Afghans were caught up in the violence.
It started when an Afghan fired shots, AFP said.
A second melee then erupted at an industrial site around 5km (three miles) away.
"Police intervened to protect the Afghan migrants faced with 150 to 200 Eritrean migrants," the local prefecture said.
No new 'Jungle' camp in Calais - Macron
French security forces have been sent to the area.
This is the worst violence between migrants in Calais for months, and the use of firearms is a worrying escalation of the tensions, the BBC's Hugh Schofield in Paris reports.
Though the Calais migrant camp known as the Jungle was demolished in 2016, hundreds of migrants are still living rough in the nearby woods, hoping to reach the UK.
Many of those left are young men.
Local charities put the number of such migrants living in Calais at around 800, while the authorities say there are between 550 and 600.
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Re: And these are trying to get into the UK
Fri Feb 02, 2018 9:00 am
Your post is just a link?
Re: OT: Clashes as groups still trying to get into the UK
Fri Feb 02, 2018 7:19 pm
Let them in, these gun toting baseball bat carrying thugs can only be a good thing for the UK.
Re: OT: Clashes as groups still trying to get into the UK
Fri Feb 02, 2018 7:50 pm
Free food and shelter but enough money to buy a gun.
All fighting to get on the gravy train and kill our kindness and suck the goodness till our teets fall off.
All fighting to get on the gravy train and kill our kindness and suck the goodness till our teets fall off.
Re: OT: Clashes as groups still trying to get into the UK
Fri Feb 02, 2018 8:02 pm
Apparently it's people smugglers causing the problem bit of a turf war? But besides that if you look at all refugees trying to get in by boats they're largely young men! 
Re: OT: Clashes as groups still trying to get into the UK
Fri Feb 02, 2018 10:34 pm
Send them and all the others in this country into the sea. Its beyond awful now but at least we've got a moat. 500,000 a week would be a start.