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More migrants found in reefer
« on: August 27, 2014, 08:12:49 PM »
UK police have reported a second incident in which migrants suffering from dehydration have been found inside a container.

Avon and Somerset police said they found 15 people inside a refrigerated container lorry at a service station at Ilminster, Somerset.

Police arrested the truck's German driver after receiving calls reporting shouts and banging coming from the reefer box.

A police spokesman said inside officers found 11 men, three women and a 15-year-old boy suffering from dehydration.

They told police they were from Kashmir and Eritrea. Last weekend, 35 Sikh migrants were found in a container at London's Tilbury Docks that had recently arrived via the Belgian port of Zeebrugge.

One of the stowaways was dead on arrival. The others, who said they had come from Afghanistan, received medical treatment for dehydration and hypothermia before applying for asylum.

A 34-year-old man from Northern Ireland was arrested earlier this week and is being questioned on suspicion of manslaughter and facilitating the unlawful entry of people into Britain.

"The [German] driver was quite shocked to find people in his vehicle," Somerset Police superintendent Geoff Wessell told a digital tv channel.

The man was also arrested on suspicion of facilitating illegal entry into Britain and is assisting police with their enquiries.

Source IHS

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Re: More migrants found in reefer
« Reply #1 on: August 29, 2014, 10:14:09 PM »
These illegal immigrants were found not in a reefer (sea) container but in a norma,l refrigerated semi-trailer. Such was the case with the illegals found at the Dartford Crossing in Kent. That was a fridge semi-tailer owned by an Italian haulage company. Not a shipping container. It would seem that journalists even at IHS are naive as to the difference between these two entities but the traffickers who put these pathetic, desperate souls into a refrigerated trailer in the first place are either totally ignorant of such things or just plain callous - not caring about the illegals' survival as long as they get their money.
« Last Edit: August 29, 2014, 10:37:25 PM by mumbles »

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Re: More migrants found in reefer
« Reply #2 on: August 31, 2014, 06:01:20 PM »


"The [German] driver was quite shocked to find people in his vehicle," Somerset Police superintendent Geoff Wessell told a digital tv channel.

The man was also arrested on suspicion of facilitating illegal entry into Britain and is assisting police with their enquiries.

What an absolute joke. As a truck driver formerly employed in international work between the UK and western Europe it is my firm opinion that the only ones facilitating illegal entry are the governments of France and Britain. Each time an illegal immigrant, someone who lets not forget are in France illegally, with no right to enter and to be there, are found on a truck, the authorities who make no effort to remove these people from Calais, try and fine the driver 2000 pounds for each one, and then immediately release them right back outside in to the local community in or near Calais. The very same Syrian or Afghan may be the source of multiple 2000 pound fines before he finally reaches the UK. Its the biggest state run extortion racket known in recent years. Meanwhile hard working drivers who spend often weeks away from home are portrayed to be in cahoots with criminal gangs when nothing could be further from the truth.
Drivers take huge efforts in to preventing and removing these illegal immigrants from their trucks, often being threatened with and occasionally receiving violence as a consequence. Several times I've witnessed with my own eyes, UK customs in Calais on a "Go slow" so that that there ends up being a 1 or 2 miles backlog of trucks on the approach road in to the port, all stationary and being assailed in broad daylight by hundreds of illegal immigrants....then hey presto, they truck rolls in to the port gates, tells the French or British customs that because they were made to stand still on the road through no fault of their own, they now have immigrants on their trailer, and are subsequently arrested and issued with fines that often result in bankruptcy and home repossession.
The situation is one purely manufactured by politicians and paid for by ordinary hard working citizens who drive the trucks and are absolutely powerless to prevent the abuses laid on them firstly by our respective governments and by the immigrants themselves who more and more often resort to physical violence to the truck driver. It is no different to the police stopping a car and planting something illegal on it and then their colleage down the road stopping them and finding the illegal object, a complete abuse of power and authority. What a disgrace.

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Re: More migrants found in reefer
« Reply #3 on: August 31, 2014, 07:51:06 PM »
excellent post Jordan,put them right back, in the container, and return to France, then may be they will do something about allowing these SOB,s to pass through France so easily. as long as they keep on going to "Treasure Island"
Your immigration problems are minor compared with here in the USA , Obummer brings them in by the train load not just one truck or container.

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Re: More migrants found in reefer
« Reply #4 on: September 01, 2014, 12:34:02 AM »
Here is a video on youtube showing a typical day outside the docks at Calais as trucks are made to stand idle while being swarmed by illegal immigrants. The authorities make sure the trucks are sitting ducks and then reap the rewards when those same trucks are later found to have illegal immigrants onboard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNJVVncEFU0



 

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