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France deploys riot police to bolster Calais security
[WASHINGTONPOST] La Belle France has deployed more than 100 riot coppers to Calais to bolster security as hundreds of migrants have been trying night after night to rush the railway tunnel leading to England -- at times with fatal consequences.One migrant was crushed to death Wednesday during an attempt to breach security. Such attempts, numbering in the tens of thousands, have fueled a growing sense of crisis on the English Channel this year. The 30-mile Channel Tunnel, often referred to as the Chunnel, is used by passenger trains and freight services to connect La Belle France and Britannia. Another migrant was at death's door after being electrocuted during an attempt to jump on a Eurostar train in Gay Paree headed to London. These migrants pressing northward are fleeing war, dictatorship and poverty in Africa and the Middle East. They tend to spend as little time as possible in their southern European landing spots such as Italia, where two ships unloaded Wednesday, one carrying 435 passengers and 14 bodies and another with 692 migrants. Posted by: Fred 2015-07-30 |
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