Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Daily Mail: Illegal immigrants trying to reach Britain have turned Calais into a 'lawless jungle', says French far-right leader Marine Le Pen - "Roughly 2,300 immigrants, many of them from Africa, are roaming the streets and sleeping in makeshift camps in and around Calais while waiting to attempt the final leg of their bid to reach Britain. (You have to wonder if back in 1912 there were any passengers who had been complaining about the captain of the Titanic's policy of speeding at night through the North Atlantic, who were later accused of being members of the"far right" who cynically "seized" upon and exploited the ship's slamming against the iceberg to claim that their navigational policies were safer?)


Illegal immigrants trying to reach Britain have turned Calais into a 'lawless jungle', says French far-right leader Marine Le Pen

Illegal immigrants making desperate bids to reach Britain have turned the port of Calais (pictured) into a lawless 'jungle', according to the French far-right leader

National Front leader Marine Le Pen makes call for internal border controls

Claims it is 'time to wage war on this phenomenon' unfolding in Calais



  • Le Pen seized on sharp escalation of tensions in the French port town
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  • Comes after police used teargas to stop immigrants jumping on UK-bound lorries this week

  • She described Calais as 'a jungle' where the 'survival of the fittest reign'  


  • Illegal immigrants making desperate bids to reach Britain have turned the port of Calais into a lawless 'jungle', according to the French far-right leader



  • Marine Le Pen seized on escalating tensions in the town by calling for the urgent reintroduction of internal border controls that have been banished across much of Europe.

  • The leader of the anti-immigrant National Front party made the remarks during a visit to the northern port town where riot police this week used teargas to ward off hundreds of immigrants seeking to jump on to lorries bound for Britain.  ...

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