Four migrants in critical condition after Calais shooting

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Four migrants in critical condition after Calais shooting

 

LILLE, France (Reuters) - Four migrants were in a critical condition after being shot during a brawl between Eritrean and Afghan migrants in the northern French port city of Calais on Thursday, local authorities said.

 

Another two migrants suffered less serious gunshot wounds and 12 others had other injuries, the local prefecture said, adding the numbers could change.

 

French Interior Minister Gerard Collomb said he would travel to Calais on Thursday evening to review the situation following what he called "the serious incidents".

 

Several scuffles broke out mid-afternoon between migrants from different communities, the prefecture said.

 

"The police intervened to protect Afghan migrants who were threatened by 200 migrants of Eritrean nationality," it said.

 

Authorities said around 600 migrants are in the Calais region, though humanitarian groups put the number at 800.

 

(Reporting by Pierre Savary in Lille and Emmanuel Jarry in Paris; Writing by Mathieu Rosemain; Editing by William Maclean and Andrew Heavens)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2018-02-02

[alocacoc]

Not sure if they are migrants. I guess rather illegals.

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[Scott]

Troll post removed.  

[Denim]

If two groups of refugees with ostensibly similar problems and aims and sharing the same religion , can't get on together , then how well would they integrate into society if they succeeded in crossing the channel ? 

[isaanbanhou]

2 minutes ago, Denim said:

If two groups of refugees with ostensibly similar problems and aims and sharing the same religion , can't get on together , then how well would they integrate into society if they succeeded in crossing the channel ? 

 

I s there no white on  white crime in old blighty?  

[simple1]

4 minutes ago, Denim said:

If two groups of refugees with ostensibly similar problems and aims and sharing the same religion , can't get on together , then how well would they integrate into society if they succeeded in crossing the channel ? 

Eritrea has many Christian refugees, from memory one of the oldest Christian communities worldwide. Severely doubt UK would provide refugee status for any adult asylum seekers crossing from France

[Denim]

22 minutes ago, isaanbanhou said:

 

I s there no white on  white crime in old blighty?  

Absolutely correct. Well spotted. We do indeed already have our own full quota of indigenous miscreants .

[laislica]

Migrants - With GUNS?

This is invasion, not migration!

[Kieran00001]

3 hours ago, Denim said:

If two groups of refugees with ostensibly similar problems and aims and sharing the same religion , can't get on together , then how well would they integrate into society if they succeeded in crossing the channel ? 

 

If they can't get on in a refugee camp where they are constantly harassed by ruthless gangsters then how could they integrate into British society, makes sense.

[Kieran00001]

58 minutes ago, laislica said:

Migrants - With GUNS?

This is invasion, not migration!

 

No, gangster people smugglers armed with guns does not equate to an invasion, that is some seriously paranoid thinking.

[Scott]

Troll post removed.  

[Scott]

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[halloween]

15 hours ago, Kieran00001 said:

 

No, gangster people smugglers armed with guns does not equate to an invasion, that is some seriously paranoid thinking.

Why would people smugglers be in the refugee camp, their business is at the other end of the line?

[simple1]

1 hour ago, halloween said:

Why would people smugglers be in the refugee camp, their business is at the other end of the line?

Could be people smugglers trying to extract more money, making false promises etc. Weapons would have been obtained from the black market i.e. organised crime activity

[Ron19]

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[jacko45k]

20 hours ago, isaanbanhou said:

 

I s there no white on  white crime in old blighty?  

Well there is but it would seem unwise to let this lot in to create more mayhem.

[Kieran00001]

6 hours ago, halloween said:

Why would people smugglers be in the refugee camp, their business is at the other end of the line?

 

Calais is full of people smugglers who get people across the channel and to the UK.  The police believe this was a score settling attack, the result of the Eritreans not having enough money for the Afghani smugglers. 

 

https://www.afp.com/en/news/23/smugglers-blamed-after-five-migrants-shot-calais-doc-yk9zb5

[Kieran00001]

4 hours ago, jacko45k said:

Well there is but it would seem unwise to let this lot in to create more mayhem.

 

What a sad tabloid led world we live in. 

[bert bloggs]

i wonder if those shot were children or doctors or any of the other wonderful people that are so needed in Britain?

[bert bloggs]

1 hour ago, Kieran00001 said:

 

What a sad tabloid led world we live in. 

No just the real world

[Kieran00001]

8 minutes ago, bert bloggs said:

No just the real world

 

8 minutes ago, bert bloggs said:

i wonder if those shot were children or doctors or any of the other wonderful people that are so needed in Britain?

 

Its pretty sad when people are tarring those shot with the same brush as those that shot them.  They were just queueing up to get some food when the people, smuggling gangsters shot them in the head due to not having enough money for their pleasing.

 

They were Eritreans, it's highly unlikely that they were doctors, the country is terrible, only 1% of the population access the Internet, the average education is just 5 years. Almost all refugees who escape are men of conscription age, they leave to avoid the life long enslavery into the army that is forced on so many there.

[bert bloggs]

1 hour ago, Kieran00001 said:

 

 

Its pretty sad when people are tarring those shot with the same brush as those that shot them.  They were just queueing up to get some food when the people, smuggling gangsters shot them in the head due to not having enough money for their pleasing.

 

They were Eritreans, it's highly unlikely that they were doctors, the country is terrible, only 1% of the population access the Internet, the average education is just 5 years. Almost all refugees who escape are men of conscription age, they leave to avoid the life long enslavery into the army that is forced on so many there.

So why not go to a nice country near them where they can be safe ? not travel thousands of miles to a land where the culture is different from theirs ,could it be for the free benifits that we give out in Britain ,or am i just an old cynic , that believes all that the tabloids tell me?

[simple1]

3 hours ago, bert bloggs said:

So why not go to a nice country near them where they can be safe ? not travel thousands of miles to a land where the culture is different from theirs ,could it be for the free benifits that we give out in Britain ,or am i just an old cynic , that believes all that the tabloids tell me?

Which nearby countries in Africa offer Etrian asylum seekers an opportunity for a normal life, not held in camps with no work / no future etc? Some relevant info...

 

https://openmigration.org/en/analyses/5-things-everyone-should-know-about-eritrean-refugees/

 

 

[Boatfreak]

4 hours ago, bert bloggs said:

So why not go to a nice country near them where they can be safe ? not travel thousands of miles to a land where the culture is different from theirs ,could it be for the free benifits that we give out in Britain ,or am i just an old cynic , that believes all that the tabloids tell me?

Because the British Empire has , for centuries, told the world and the countries they invaded that Britain was the best place on earth so now they want to check it out. 

[jak2002003]

13 minutes ago, Boatfreak said:

Because the British Empire has , for centuries, told the world and the countries they invaded that Britain was the best place on earth so now they want to check it out. 

It probably was one of the best places back then.  But now its s@@t.  However, to very poor and desperate people its still like heaven comparted to where they come from... and one of the few countries that will try to take care of them.. rather than kill them, leave them to rot in slums, abuse and take advantage of them, or just deport them.

[Kieran00001]

10 hours ago, bert bloggs said:

So why not go to a nice country near them where they can be safe ? not travel thousands of miles to a land where the culture is different from theirs ,could it be for the free benifits that we give out in Britain ,or am i just an old cynic , that believes all that the tabloids tell me?

 

It cant be for the benefits as they are far higher in several other countries in Europe and they could go to any of those without all the hassle of crossing the channel.

[Kieran00001]

5 hours ago, jak2002003 said:

It probably was one of the best places back then.  But now its s@@t.  However, to very poor and desperate people its still like heaven comparted to where they come from... and one of the few countries that will try to take care of them.. rather than kill them, leave them to rot in slums, abuse and take advantage of them, or just deport them.

 

When the British invaded it was WWII, it wasn't really one of the best places.

[nausea]

Problems travel, they don't stay at home. Import immigrants, you import their problems. 

[rosst]

On 02/02/2018 at 8:33 AM, Denim said:

If two groups of refugees with ostensibly similar problems and aims and sharing the same religion , can't get on together , then how well would they integrate into society if they succeeded in crossing the channel ? 

Agreed, I think they should all be given guns for their protection. 

[Kieran00001]

2 hours ago, nausea said:

Problems travel, they don't stay at home. Import immigrants, you import their problems. 

 

The Eritreans problem is one of forced indefinite national conscription, how exactly would that problem travel with them?  The problem at Calais was caused by greedy people smugglers killing refugees who didn't have the money to pay them, again, how exactly would this problem travel with them?  Your blind assumption that immigrants arrive with the problems they seek to escape is not based on reality, it is based on your fears, which are entirely irrational.