It was inevitable really, they've been pressuring that border every day for years now. Hopefully they will all be vetted humanely to help those in genuine need and not just thrown them all back.
Some footage of the event
https://youtu.be/UD5Xn5--q7U
I wouldn't put it so harshly, under EU law all the immigrants are theoretically not allowed to be sent back without a proper vetting. The problem is that they are arriving in such large numbers that the whole process gets held up and leaves a lot of migrants just waiting around doing nothing, housed in terrible conditions 'cause room is scarce. Combine that with a lot of xenophobia and bigotry and these people are sure to have a pretty shitty time in europe. It's a complicated mess and I really do feel sorry for them.
It is actually a plot by France to further increase the athletic might of their sports teams.
“In an attempt to stop the Guardia Civil getting close to the break-in area, the migrants … [pelted] officers with plastic containers of excrement and quicklime, sticks and stones, as well as using aerosols as flame-throwers,” it said.
This is a particularly concerning point, IMO. They were reported using clubs in Feb 2017, and are now using chemicals and utilities as weapons (with victims, if few).
It'll be a matter of time until the border police has to escalate its measures too, and it won't be a pretty picture.
Not sure what they're expecting to happen. It's not like crossing the fence means they can stay or go to spain. If they cause aggro with the police that especially damages their chances. I get that they're desperate but they're not helping their situation here.
There really are no good sides to this debate, luckily we have the border to keep them separate.
On a serious note, boza is actually a shitty alcoholic drink, and the word is used also to call someone an idiot, so i doubt this is just a 'victory' chant, more like a chant to make fun of their captors.
We already forgot about when we installed that special barbed wire which made terrible cuts and got us denounced everywhere until we "replaced" it? Or when the police shoot with rubber balls to some inmigrants who were swimming, causing lessions and even the death of one of them ( and then the interior minister waved it as "there was no option" and none was punished )?
Before reaching the walled zone of the frontier, they have to cross the desert and live in camps made by smugglers at the mountains, then they create these situations. Most of them gets detained ( and beaten ) by the morrocan police, and the few ones who aren't accepted into a internment center ( which they already have hundreds of reclamations from different NGOs due how shitty they are in all the aspects ) are returned to the other side. Then the smugglers come again, and offer their camps and tools for money. Rinse and repeat. They take advantage from the desperation of people.
Is just the same type of smuggling economy everywhere in north africa: pay a high sum of money so we can put you in a raft / give ladders, cutters and other stuff / fit you into a secret space on a car / truck / van. This will not be ended with more walls and other equal ideas, but by rebuilding and restoring peace at their countries of origin.
I don't doubt they've gone through some shit to get there and were likely mislead along the way (smugglers giving them unrealistic expectations or misinformation or even fake life jackets) but them climbing a fence isn't helping their chances of getting to a better place.
And yeah I agree, our countries should be trying to do more to help the situation and restore those countries so lessen the number of people trying to leave their countries.
Letting people drown in the sea, or building walls, is neither a viable nor moral course of action.
They're practically battling the guardsmen at the border wall now. Reports of them using self-made flamethrowers and quicklime as well.
This is getting beyond nasty, i'm surprised there isn't more outcry about this as this really shows the violent side of the migrants that seek peace but bring us war
I'll add an interesting local source:
Een kudtkoekiewall. Omdat dat moet, van de kudtkoekiewet.
what the absolute fuck is that page?
Update, it happened again once again with self-made flamethrowers, quicklime, and acid
The attack reportedly happened during the prayer preceding the sacrifice of animals for the feast
300 migrants storm Spanish exclave of Ceuta, attack police with ..
Hundred migrants storm Ceuta border fence as Spain route flouris..
More than 100 migrants storm border of North African Spanish enc..
As the climate crisis continues to ramp up, you can only expect this to get worse. If measures aren't made to prepare for and respond to truly massive levels of migration then in the coming years we could easily be looking at the deaths of tens of millions as they try to escape.
And right wing extemists will dominate elections at all levels to fight against the "invasion".
This may eventually lead to a shooting.
Because when you've got a country that is unable to protect itself from the inflow of undocuments then eventally more radical solution will be put in place that may result in gun violence or worest to protect itself.
Never corner someone against the wall.
In a surprsing move, those last 116 have been sent back less than a day after:
https://www.thelocal.es/20180824/migrants-who-stormed-morocco-spain-border-sent-back
Sorry, you need to Log In to post a reply to this thread.
