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Mass bordercrossing from Morocco to Ceuta (Spain)

transmitter | 29.09.2005 13:51 | Migration | World

Tonight, 4-500 refugees from Morocco tried to enter the Spanish territory of the Exklave Ceuta. Spanish police has killed two with rubber projectiles. Prime Minister Zapatero asked for the deployment of soldiers.

I found the following in my inbox:

After years and years of deliberatly letting people die in the attempt to get into Europe, it seems that the EU is now starting a shoot-to-kill policy on refugees on the southern borders....

news this morning from
 http://www.spiegel-online.de
(german)

spanish info:
 http://estrecho.indymedia.org/newswire/display/15720/index.php

odd translation (sorry..)

The scenes resembled a storm on the Fortress Europe. 4-500 refugees tried to arrive this night again from Morocco at the Spanish territory of the Exklave Ceuta. Spanish police has killed two with rubber projectiles.
After the third mass attempt of African refugees to arrive on Spanish Territory in Morocco within three days Madrid sends soldiers, in order to strengthen the border police. An joint attempt of several hundred to cross the border of the spanish exclave Ceuta in Afrika gave the excuse for the troop deployment, after in the last night rush at least four Africans died.
According to the governor of Ceuta, Jeronimo Nieto Gonzales, two humans suffocated or crushed when crossing the double checked fence. According to the Spanish ministry of the Interior, one of the men got stuck in the fence, another was probably dead-trampled.
According to Moroccan sources two refugees were killed by rubber projectiles, which were fired from the Spanish side. At least 50 African hurt themselves in their desperate attempt to arrive on Spanish territory. According to Spanish reports approximately a hundred refugees arrived at the Spanish side of the border. They were taken into care by physician teams.
The authorities were surprised of the mass of the refugees and their coordinated attempt, as the representative of the ministry of the Interior in Ceuta, Nieto Gonzales, explained. "the security forceses were alarmed, but they did not expect so many", he said in the Spanish radio.
Secretary of Defense José Bono said Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero asked for the deployment of soldiers. "I received the order to strengthen the border police in Ceuta and Melilla with troops", he said. How large the contingent will be, it could not be said yet. The camps for receiving refugees in Ceuta and Melilla are in the meantime totally overloaded, because with each wave hundreds succeed in crossing the border . They climb the fences, in order to down-jump on the other site. The refugees come from countries south of the Sahara and want to arrive in Europe, in order to escape from the poverty and the misery in their homeland.

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Shoot-to-kill

29.09.2005 22:00

It was hardly a shoot-to-kill scenario. They used rubber bullets, which means they didn't intend to kill. If they did they'd have used live rounds. There wouldn't have been any deaths if they didn't try to storm the place. I know rubber bullets are known to cause the occasional death, but what else were they supposed to have done? They couldn't have just sat back and let them overwhelm the place.

Humpty Dumpty


overwhelming

30.09.2005 09:47

"They couldn't have just sat back and let them overwhelm the place."
No, of course, then there'd be hordes of darkies overrunning the country. This is surely a clear example of why we should be dismantling the borders and restrictions, and getting the police to be putting down their weapons. But of course we can't do that. Borders have a purpose - to separate the rich nations from the poor, to keep certain inferior peoples in their place.

No borders, no nations.

no borders


No borders???

30.09.2005 13:19

Altho,of course, i do not support what happened in ceuta, nor the abuse of refugees or asylum seekers, yet i think no borders is madness. there can only be no borders among countries of relatively the same level of wealth, like the EU. Furthermore, i do not see how 'no borders' helps africa.surely it is better for africans to stay in their own countries and try and develepe their economies and society rather than seek to get away to europe. Simply letting people into europe is no answer for poverty, nor does it lead to developement. It only creates a social problem in europe.( working class solidarity or integration is soo rare) Furthermore, a no borders will only lead to a far right fascist type party to get into power. Controlled immigration? yes. No borders? Nice slogan, but in practice is complete nonsense.

kautsky


no borders

01.10.2005 19:24

no borders doesn't make sense in isolation, but coupled with the dismantling of capitalism and the establishment of libertarian, egalitarian ownership modes its a crucial part of freeing humanity.

how dare someone draw a line in the sand and tell me i was born on the poor side! abolish capitalism, no borders!

border patrol


victims names

01.10.2005 23:38

i would like to have the names on the people who was killed. Does anyone know how to find them?

michael