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UK minister confirms work to start on 1.9m Calais wall
2016 Sep 6, 7:12pm 616 views 2 comments
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MisdemeanorRebel
2016 Sep 6, 9:41pm
MisdemeanorRebel
2016 Sep 6, 9:41pm
Here's why; French Truckers are on strike because of the extreme danger they face on the way to the Port. Migrants are now throwing bigass tree branches and hauling out debris right in front of them, hoping to cause a collision/traffic jam so they can jump onto as many vehicles as possible. Video below the fold.
Looks like the kind of people who will really improve Britain.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/06/uk-immigration-minister-confirms-work-will-begin-on-big-new-wall-in-calais?rf
Work is about to begin on “a big, new wall” in Calais as the latest attempt to prevent refugees and migrants jumping aboard lorries heading for the Channel port, the UK's immigration minister has confirmed.
Robert Goodwill told MPs on Tuesday that the four-metre high wall was part of a £17m package of joint Anglo-French security measures to tighten precautions at the port.
“People are still getting through,” he said. “We have done the fences. Now we are doing the wall,” the new immigration minister told the Commons home affairs committee.
Building on the 1km-long wall along the ferry port's main dual-carriageway approach road, known as the Rocade, is due to start this month. The £1.9m wall will be built in two sections on either side of the road to protect lorries and other vehicles from migrants who have used rocks, shopping trolleys and even tree trunks to try to stop vehicles before climbing aboard.
It will be made of smooth concrete in an attempt to make it more difficult to scale, with plants and flowers on one side to reduce its visual impact on the local area. It is due to be completed by the end of the year.
But Goodwill, a former shipping minister, said the new wall was part of a package of measures to step up security at the Channel ports. “We are going to start building this big, new wall as part of the £17m package we are doing with the French. There is still more to do. We have also invested in space for 200 lorries at Calais so that they have somewhere safe to wait.”
#buildit #rapefugees