Riots In Calais?

[Ric.ror]

Just heard about these (passingly) on the radio?
Anyone have a further link/info?

[albaqwerty]

I think this was discussed on here, will have a look - in the meantime (hope the link works Ric

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/11179302/French-riot-police-in-battle-with-Calais-migrants-

[Ric.ror]

That page has been deleted!!!!!!!

[albaqwerty]

ooooh - descended into farce I take it?!!

Explains why I couldn't find it lol

[Togo]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/11179302/French-riot-police-in-battle-with-Calais-migrants-in-pictures.html

I don't know whether this link will open. It appears that there has been two days of riots, and tear gas response by the French police, to control migrants who launched an attack to gain access to lorries bound for ................The UK. It has been kept pretty quiet has it not. I note also that the Telegraph closed the comments page on the article.

[albaqwerty]

Thanks for the link Togo, it worked. not like my poor attempt at trying to post the same.

It has been kept very quiet as far as I can tell.

[Togo]

Referendum censorship?

[anotheoldgit]

albaqwerty

/// It has been kept very quiet as far as I can tell. ///

It won't be the first riot the French police have been forced to take action against, but I supposed this recent one has come at a bad time as far as the 'IN' supporters are concerned.

[fiction-factory]

A vote for Brexit wouldn't stop migrants trying to sneak in via lorries though would it? In fact Brexit might mean the French would not get involved in trying to stop migration from Calais to UK so we'd have to deal with them at our end when/if we catch them

[Togo]

We are not in the foolish Schengen region agreement anyway so how does it make it worse? The agreement is only with the French regarding the migrant invasion. When we stop allowing them to covertly let migrants through to the UK, they will move pretty quick to prevent movement into France.

[albaqwerty]

AOG, I doubt it'll be the last time that the riot police will be deployed either.

FF, true , IN or OUT, folk will still try to get in, either lorries or walk through the tunnel.

[Togo]

alba, If we are foolish enough to vote with the Remainians, we will be dragged into the Schengen agreement. Guess what happens then? That's right millions yes millions of migrants would be free to travel across Europe freely and into the UK. Italy, France, Germany, all off them could even provide free transport (which they are covertly doing at the moment by not ejecting ticketless migrants from trains and buses heading west) all the way to Britain. We have been ordered by the EUSSR to build more homes and accommodation in their latest edict, not for our citizens mind. For the migrants.

[albaqwerty]

I know I'm not as clever as you lot, but I was under the impression that if you fled from a war, the first country you came to was the one you had to settle in and not go wandering about to find a country which would give you lots of benefits.

(don't tell anyone, I'm OUT, am fed up of the EUSSR)

[New Judge]

There is nothing unusual in the events portrayed by pictures. It’s everyday life in Calais and is becoming so in Dunkirk as well.

I gave up visiting or passing through Calais (which I used to do about five or six times a year) about three years ago. I was in the port waiting for my return ferry when the port itself was stormed by hundreds of migrants. I don’t scare easily but I feared for my safety and that of my travelling companions. However I know a few people who still brave the trip and the town and particularly its surrounding areas have degenerated into a vast no go area. The French need to get a grip on the situation but, like these pictures, it is nothing new as they have needed to do so for some years.

“In fact Brexit might mean the French would not get involved in trying to stop migration from Calais to UK so we'd have to deal with them at our end when/if we catch them”

Not so. As I have explained before the “Le Touquet” agreement (which juxtaposes British and French border controls on opposite sides of the Channel) has nothing to do with the EU. It is a simple bi-lateral agreement between the UK and France (of the type that many nations negotiate without the need to run it past a supranational executive). As I also explained the French are most unlikely to withdraw from it as it is not in their interests.

Of course our leaving the EU will not stop the masses congregating across the Channel. The EU’s own Schengen Agreement allows them to roam all over the continent seeking their destination of choice. But Togo is absolutely correct and voters need to be under no illusions. If the UK votes to remain, on 24th June all bets are off. Any of the earth shattering reforms that Mr Cameron told us he had secured will be quietly ditched and moves will be afoot the include the UK in the EU’s migrant “distribution” scheme. That will make the trickle of clandestines currently making it across the Channel seem like a spoonful of sugar. Remember, you heard it here first so don’t say you were not warned.

PS - the vast majority of those in Calais are not fleeing war, albaqwerty. Never have been.