„Migranti: da Lampedusa a Calais, cercando l’Europa“

04. August 2015 · Kommentare deaktiviert für „Migranti: da Lampedusa a Calais, cercando l’Europa“ · Kategorien: Europa, Frankreich, Großbritannien, Mittelmeer · Tags:

Quelle: Il Fatto Quotidiano

von Giampiero Gramaglia

C’è la tentazione di banalizzarla, questa vicenda, collocandola in qualche serie da saggezza popolare tipo ‘Chi la fa l’aspetti’, o peggio ancora ‘Mal comune mezzo gaudio’. E, invece, la vicenda di Calais, che non è uguale a quella di Ventimiglia, anche se si legge che è la stessa, ed è diversa da quella della barriera tra Ungheria e Serbia, ma per molti versi le assomiglia, sta nella serie dei drammi delle migrazioni e dell’incapacità dell’Europa di affrontarli a livello nazionale – impossibile – e a livello di Unione – difficile, in ogni caso.

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Migranti, adesso l’appello all’Ue arriva anche da Londra: „Calais non è solo problema nostro“

04. August 2015 · Kommentare deaktiviert für Migranti, adesso l’appello all’Ue arriva anche da Londra: „Calais non è solo problema nostro“ · Kategorien: Europa, Frankreich, Großbritannien, Italien

Quelle: R.it

Il Telegraph pubblica una lettera aperta scritta dal ministro dell’Interno della Gran Bretagna insieme al suo collega francese. Si fa riferimento alla „situazione di crisi“ come „priorità europea e internazionale“, con le stesse parole che l’Italia rivolgeva a Bruxelles, quando era Cameron a dire no alle quote per l’accoglienza

LONDRA – La Gran Bretagna, alle prese con la situazione drammatica dei migranti, si ritrova a formulare lo stesso appello che l’Italia rivolgeva al premier d’oltre Manica, David Cameron, nel pieno degli sbarchi a Lampedusa, quando Londra si opponeva alle quote per l’accoglienza. Ora che un fronte si è aperto a Calais, il governo britannico sottoscrive insieme a quello francese un testo per dire che il problema immigrazione non riguarda solo i due Paesi che si trovano agli estremi dell’Eurotunnel preso d’assalto da chi vuole entrare in Inghilterra. Solo nella notte tra sabato e domenica sono stati circa 300 i migranti che hanno sfidato controlli e barriere di sicurezza.

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Libyen: US-EU Militäreinsatz Ende August geplant?

03. August 2015 · Kommentare deaktiviert für Libyen: US-EU Militäreinsatz Ende August geplant? · Kategorien: Deutschland, Frankreich, Großbritannien, Italien, Libyen · Tags:

Quelle: The Times

Hundreds of UK troops set to help Libya fight advance of Isis

Deborah Haynes, Bel Trew, Bruno Waterfield

„Hundreds of British troops are being lined up to go to Libya as part of a major new international mission to help stabilise the North African country and combat Islamic State. Military personnel from Italy, France, Spain, Germany and the United States will also take part in an operation that looks set to be activated once the rival warring factions inside Libya agree to form a single government of national unity. […]“

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Calais: Domino-Abschottung

02. August 2015 · Kommentare deaktiviert für Calais: Domino-Abschottung · Kategorien: Frankreich, Großbritannien

Quelle: Le Monde

A Calais, la France est « le bras policier » de Londres

Par Philippe Bernard (Londres, correspondant)

« Calais : envoyez l’armée ! » Dans sa rage à défendre le Royaume-Uni, « assiégé » par quelques milliers de migrants, la presse populaire britannique feint d’ignorer le sens exact de cet « appel » lancé au gouvernement Cameron : envoyer des soldats anglais sur le sol français pour régler une question que Paris se montre « incapable » de gérer.

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Calais: “Many are refugees, just as the Jewish people in 1939”

02. August 2015 · Kommentare deaktiviert für Calais: “Many are refugees, just as the Jewish people in 1939” · Kategorien: Frankreich, Großbritannien

Quelle: The Guardian

Church attacks David Cameron’s lack of compassion over asylum crisis

Bishop of Dover pleads for PM to ‘rediscover what it is to be human’ as No 10 reveals a joint plan with France to boost security around Eurotunnel

Mark Townsend and Daniel Boffey in London and Emma Graham-Harrison in Calais

The Church of England has made a dramatic intervention in the migrant crisis, delivering a stern rebuke to David Cameron for his “unhelpful” rhetoric.

Speaking with the backing of the church, the bishop of Dover accused senior political figures, including the prime minister, of forgetting their humanity and attacked elements of the media for propagating a “toxicity” designed to spread antipathy towards migrants.

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„Calais crisis: medics struggle to cope with number of injured migrants“

31. Juli 2015 · Kommentare deaktiviert für „Calais crisis: medics struggle to cope with number of injured migrants“ · Kategorien: Frankreich, Großbritannien · Tags:

Quelle: The Guardian

Médecins du Monde, which has semi-permanent base in migrant camp, says number of people needing urgent help has rocketed in recent days

Medical staff in Calais say they are struggling to cope with the number of seriously injured migrants, who are taking ever greater risks attempting to get to the UK.

As French police confirmed the death of another migrant attempting to cross the Channel, Médecins du Monde, which has a semi-permanent base in “the jungle” migrant camp in Calais, said that the number of people needing urgent help had rocketed in recent days.

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„Eine völlig perverse Politik“

31. Juli 2015 · Kommentare deaktiviert für „Eine völlig perverse Politik“ · Kategorien: Frankreich, Großbritannien · Tags:

Quelle: TAZ

von Rudolf Balmer

In Europa wird viel von Menschenwürde gesprochen und Asyl nur unter Lebensgefahr gewährt. Für diese Politik ist Calais das traurige Symbol.

Großbritannien und Frankreich investieren ein paar zusätzliche Millionen in die verstärkte Sicherung der Zugänge zum Eurotunnel unter dem Ärmelkanal. Auf beiden Seiten weiß man, dass auch das die Migranten keineswegs vom Versuch einer illegalen Überquerung abhalten wird. Und wie seit Jahren werden es einige früher oder später auch nach Großbritannien schaffen.

Nur: Das Risiko steigt fast proportional zur Höhe der Zäune und Mauern, die die Anlegestellen für die Fähren sowie die Tunneleinfahrt umgeben.

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„The only ‚migrant madness‘ is the tabloid pretence about events in Calais „

30. Juli 2015 · Kommentare deaktiviert für „The only ‚migrant madness‘ is the tabloid pretence about events in Calais „ · Kategorien: Frankreich · Tags:

Quelle: The Guardian

Analysis: It is time to end the lie that a few hundred migrants trying to enter the UK via the Channel tunnel amount to a mass invasion

For once the Daily Mail has got it right with its demand to “End this Migrant Madness” but not in the way they mean it.

It is time to end this tabloid media pretence that nightly, repeated and mostly unsuccessful, attempts by a few hundred migrants to illegally enter Britain by way of the Channel tunnel amount to an invasion threat not seen since Hitler assembled his invasion barges in the autumn of 1940.

The “invasion thesis” is fuelled by the use of language that reduces the status of those who have fled from Syria, Eritrea and other failing states in the biggest movement of displaced people since the second world war to the single word of “illegals”.

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Calais migrants: life in the Jungle – Video

29. Juli 2015 · Kommentare deaktiviert für Calais migrants: life in the Jungle – Video · Kategorien: Frankreich, Video · Tags:

Quelle: The Guardian

Away from the chaotic scenes on Calais’s motorways and ports, the migrant camp known as the ’new Jungle‘ is growing fast and showing signs of becoming a permanent fixture. The Guardian spent three weeks following the lives of a few of its 3,000 residents, rare in-depth access that reveals a growing human cost of the crisis, and the challenges facing refugees and migrants trying to reach Britain

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siehe auch: The Guardian

Fortress Calais: fleeting fixtures and precarious lives in the migrant camp

With street lights and bike shops springing up in the ‘Jungle’ there is a growing sense of permanence, but often little trace of the people who came and went […]

Eurotunnel: 13 Tote seit Juni 2015

29. Juli 2015 · Kommentare deaktiviert für Eurotunnel: 13 Tote seit Juni 2015 · Kategorien: Frankreich · Tags: ,
A Sudanese woman was found dead in a lorry at the Tunnel this morning.
Two men died in the past two days. One was Sudanese or Eritrean according to the police, and the other Pakistani. The first man died yesterday night after being hit by a lorry. The young Pakinstani man died yesterday of his injuries after being run over on the motorway the night before.

Both men have not been named yet.
 
There have never been so many deaths in Calais, and that is due to the border being closed, for the will of the UK government who invested 12.000.000 euros in building a new fence. People are forced to take bigger risks to try and to to England.
 
There were 13 deaths since the beginning of June. 4 more bodies were found this year, thought to be of migrants who died while trying to swim across the Channel.
 
There were 15 deaths in Calais last year, that we know of.

Media news (French):

NEW VIDEO ABOUT POLICE VIOLENCE BY NO BORDERS ACTIVISTS:
New post (must read):
Police violence has much to do with deaths at the Calais border. According to eye witnesses, a group of migrants were sprayed with CS gas in the face. A young Eritrean woman of 23 died as a direct result, her eyes were so sore that she could not see where she was going and was fatally injured by a vehicle while crossing the motorway, 24th July. Shame on the French State and the French police murderers!
Verdict of the Committee for Human Rights: France is no longer the land of Human Rights

Quelle: Spiegel-Online

Massenansturm: Briten wollen Eurotunnel gegen Flüchtlinge abdichten

Flüchtlinge versuchen immer wieder, über den Eurotunnel bei der nordfranzösischen Stadt Calais nach Großbritannien zu gelangen. Dabei ist auf der französischen Seite erneut ein Mensch ums Leben gekommen. Das teilte der Betreiber Eurotunnel mit. Der Flüchtling im Alter zwischen 25 und 30 Jahren stamme aus dem Sudan, schreibt die Nachrichtenagentur AFP. Er sei tödlich verunglückt, als er versuchte, auf einen Zug zu gelangen. Es war der neunte derartige Todesfall am Eurotunnel seit Anfang Juni.

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