Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Frankfurter Allgemeine- British Desperate to Close Off Chunnel to Refugees

Edited by Werner D'Inka, JÜRGEN Kaube Berthold Kohler, HOLGER Steltzner

RefugeesBritish want Euro Tunnel secure with million euros against refugees

To prevent refugees crossing the Euro Tunnel, the UK will provide additional ten million euros. Alone in the night to Tuesday 2,000 people had tried to advance to the tunnel.
© AFPRefugees on the way to Euro Tunnel
Given the mass trial of refugees to arrive from France via the Channel Tunnel to the UK, the government in London wants to spend additional millions for security measures. The British Home Secretary Theresa May announced Tuesday at after a meeting with her French counterpart Bernard Cazeneuve in London, in addition to provide seven million pounds (ten million euros) for the border security. Previously, the British government had already pledged £ 15 million for measures in the Euro Tunnel.
Alone in the night of Tuesday had a total of almost 2,000 refugees tried to go to the Channel Tunnel. A Euro Tunnel spokesman said that his company had all its security personnel have to use and the police had been in use. Accordingly, the incidents have led to delays in train traffic in the euro tunnel.

Always resist fatal accidents

According to the authorities by the beginning of July some 3,000 refugees in the region around the northern French town of Calais, where the Euro Tunnel starts, stranded. Most of them come from Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan and Afghanistan.You try to get on ferries or through the Euro Tunnel to Britain, where they hope for a better life.
In the experiments a secret entry to the UK, it always comes back to fatal accidents. Just since the beginning of June came on the French side of the tunnel eight refugees were killed.
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"The French and British governments are working on this issue that affects us both, very closely," May said after her meeting with Cazeneuve. Intelligence and security agencies would cooperate to combat people smuggling gangs, "beat out human misery Profit" the.Britain and France would in the deportation of migrants, especially to West Africa, to work together "to ensure that the people see that the journey here does not cause them to come to Europe and can settle down here," May said.
Source: AFP 
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