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Shooting Migrants?
French police open fire on migrants' dinghy on Dunkirk beach with potentially lethal rubber bullets to stop their illegal boat crossing the Channel to the UK
https://video.dailymail.co.uk/preview/mol/2021/10/02/191858814838029676/964x580_MP4_191858814838029676.mp4
French police have shot migrants with potentially lethal rubber bullets to stop their illegal boat crossing the Channel to the UK. An investigation by French national police authorities was under way last night into the first known case of gun tactics to halt a migrant boat launch. It marks a major escalation of tension on the beaches as gendarmerie night patrols struggle to control the armada of boats heading for Britain. The shooting happened in darkness at Dunkirk as eight Iranian Kurds carried a dinghy towards the sea. It was destined to bring 40 migrants from France. Two Iranian Kurds hit by the bullets were taken to hospital, one with a fractured leg and the other with a broken hand. Those carrying the boat claim that the group of gun-toting police laughed at them as their injured comrades fell to the ground. One of the shot migrants, Juanro Rasuli (centre), was last night still in Dunkirk central hospital with a fractured left leg, which was wrapped in bandages. He did not want to speak out because of the fear of reprisals. The second man, who was shot in the hand, is undergoing medical treatment as an outpatient. Pictured: French paramedics treat Rasuli (left), a file image of a French police officer aiming a rubber bullet gun (inset) and migrants under the cover of darkness on a beach in Dunkirk (right).
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10050681/Horror-Dunkirk-beach-French-police-open-fire-migrants-dinghy-rubber-bullets.html
https://video.dailymail.co.uk/preview/mol/2021/10/02/191858814838029676/964x580_MP4_191858814838029676.mp4
French police have shot migrants with potentially lethal rubber bullets to stop their illegal boat crossing the Channel to the UK. An investigation by French national police authorities was under way last night into the first known case of gun tactics to halt a migrant boat launch. It marks a major escalation of tension on the beaches as gendarmerie night patrols struggle to control the armada of boats heading for Britain. The shooting happened in darkness at Dunkirk as eight Iranian Kurds carried a dinghy towards the sea. It was destined to bring 40 migrants from France. Two Iranian Kurds hit by the bullets were taken to hospital, one with a fractured leg and the other with a broken hand. Those carrying the boat claim that the group of gun-toting police laughed at them as their injured comrades fell to the ground. One of the shot migrants, Juanro Rasuli (centre), was last night still in Dunkirk central hospital with a fractured left leg, which was wrapped in bandages. He did not want to speak out because of the fear of reprisals. The second man, who was shot in the hand, is undergoing medical treatment as an outpatient. Pictured: French paramedics treat Rasuli (left), a file image of a French police officer aiming a rubber bullet gun (inset) and migrants under the cover of darkness on a beach in Dunkirk (right).
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10050681/Horror-Dunkirk-beach-French-police-open-fire-migrants-dinghy-rubber-bullets.html
Comments
A horrible story.
Ms Patel has accused the French of not doing enough to stop migrants attempting to cross the Channel, but shooting them suggests they are trying. Too hard.
Here in the UK we are wringing our hands in frustration that we have to queue for petrol, & yet there are poor souls trying to seek a better life being shot at whilst at sea.
What a weird world we live in. I'm not sure many folks really care about these poor migrants.
Many will be thinking that they are fine, as long as they go elsewhere.
We've apparently got our borders back. And control. Yet still we whine about other people not doing our job as well as we would like....
And there has never been a deal to "end Channel crossings". It's deluded to pretend otherwise.