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* Monday 20 July 2009 (8:45am) News due soon about meeting between chief of police and Calais humanitarian associations. A demonstration is taking place outside venue now encouraging them not to collaborate.

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Demonstration outside Calais sub prefect office

20.07.2009 08:43

Banners hanging on fence of sub prefect office (police station)

chalked messages at entrance to police station

As we write, memmbers of the various Calais humanitarian associations working with migrants in Calais are meeting with the Prefect and Sub Prefect (chiefs of police) in Calais. Outside the police station some people from these associations and members of Calais Witnesses, Calais Migrant Solidarity and No Borders are demonstrating noisily, warning against collaboration with the authorities. More news when we find out what the meeting was told by the police.

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wonderful

20.07.2009 16:29

'A rapist who posed as a policeman to get into his 89-year-old victim's home was snared because she copied a scene from CSI and scratched his face for DNA. Bouncer Mauro Lopes, 31, who weighs 20 stone, raped the frail seven-stone widow twice after tricking his way into her home in Leeds, West Yorkshire. Lopes, who won asylum after coming to the UK from Angola on a false passport seven years ago....'

Aren't asylum seekers wonderful? Fuck 'no borders'

mike

logic

20.07.2009 17:01

One wonders why we have a policy of flying out dangerous criminals immigrants who have finished their sentences, to only let another set back in again.

If people are coming from countries where they throw acid in each other's faces and run around with AK47s and rocket launchers, then it stands to reason that they will be above average risk of being violent nutters.

tim