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discocrisco01

(1,666 posts)
Sun Jan 24, 2016, 12:37 PM Jan 2016

French government promises to keep law and order in Calais

The BBC reports that

"Interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve said 35 people - 26 migrants and nine activists - were arrested during the incident on Saturday.
He said mobile forces, including riot police, gendarmes and border units, had been mobilised for several months.
It comes as the UK Road Haulage Association, called for more "decisive action" to secure the port.
Chief executive Richard Burnett said France should deploy its military to guard the area warning it was "only a matter of time before our worst fears become a reality and a UK-bound truck driver is killed".
But in a statement Mr Cazeneuve said the country's government had a total determination to maintain law and order."

The migrants have a total valid reason to protest. They are being held in squalid conditions that are unsanitary and live in absolute squalid. Where they should be in the country is one thing?. But their living conditions are definitely worth a protest.

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