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At least 150 riot police arrive in Calais after gangs of armed migrants set up road blocks
2017-06-14
[DailyMail]
  • France dismantled the Jungle camp in October displacing some 8,000 migrants

  • They were dispersed around the country but there were fears they would return

  • Video footage shot from lorry shows gangs running after trucks trying to get in

  • Experts feared a surge of violence this summer as migrants returned to Calais

  • The tactics have been used at least three times in as many weeks

  • Estimates of 300-600 currently sleeping rough in the area

  • Charities complaine police are trying to stop food and water hand-outs to the migrants


Posted by:trailing wife

#10  Need to find a Corsican to lead again.

Dien Bien Phu?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-06-14 16:01  

#9  Plus the troops would just surrender.

Need to find a Corsican to lead again. Oh, right, he sort of burn through the good lot a bit too fast. Never mind.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2017-06-14 15:48  

#8  In the good old days they used a small whiff of grapeshot to breakup this sort of thing.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia    2017-06-14 15:18  

#7  Do we stack em lengthwise or crosswise?
Just use an open-topped garbage container and compact as needed. Then tarp properly to prevent the Dreaded Unsecured Load Citation...
Posted by: USN, Ret.   2017-06-14 14:22  

#6  Yes.
Posted by: Pappy   2017-06-14 13:50  

#5  #4 Crack heads and into the shipping container ya go

Do we stack em lengthwise or crosswise?
Posted by: SteveS   2017-06-14 11:47  

#4  Crack heads and into the shipping container ya go
Posted by: Frank G   2017-06-14 10:28  

#3  Plus the troops would just surrender.
Posted by: DarthVader   2017-06-14 08:58  

#2  Why riot police when foreign nationals are committing organized violence? Send in troops.

Because, if French authorities were capable of this kind of common sense, there wouldn't be a "migrant" camp there in the first place.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-06-14 02:01  

#1  Why riot police when foreign nationals are committing organized violence? Send in troops.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2017-06-14 00:04  

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