‘Army for the protection of the truckers around Calais’
Posted on 15-12-2015 at 9:03 by sir_smokalot – 64 Comments”
Calais is slowly becoming a war zone to look like, and so is Transport and Logistics Netherlands (TLN) to the appropriate army against the wandering and at times very aggressive aliens who stay.
On the French side of the Eurotunnel in Calais, it is all for a long time a – pardon my French – giant pleurisbende by ‘refugees’ that Great Britain are trying to achieve. The related harassment of truckers by the young men who are with a firm hand access to their trailers is the special interest groups a thorn in the eye. Transport and Logistics Netherlands (TLN) calls, therefore, now in a press statement for the use of the army to protect against these Banksy-fanboys.
Tear gas and baseball bats
TLN-chairman Arthur van Dijk observes a hardening of the behaviour of the young men around Calais, across BNR let him know: “drivers are literally threatened with baseball bats, there are stones thrown, there is even tear gas and pepper spray used.” And well not vergoeilijkend say: “come on, that his excesses‘. Go but walk in the shoes of a trucker that can use a few stones against the windshield gekeild get and say it again.
Let me tell you first that I am the cry for help of the organisation of traffic completely snap. It’s been months a total lot around Calais, and the French politicians simply gives too little priority to tackling the problem. Some of the flying brigades of Gendarmes bets (video) on a miles-long strip of road where thousands of fortune seekers to your heart’s content about the crash barriers to climb, a retreating movement, and then continue again that they started mopping with the faucet open.
Nothing to lose
But that is precisely the problem: in the current layout, you need a huge manpower working to get a grip on the situation, and I think that France is currently busier is his borders (yours truly lives in a border area with France, and the tighter controls are very clearly noticeable) in the aftermath of the terror in Paris. Moreover, a tougher approach may have the consequence that the illegal immigrants are going to distribute, while they are now nice and clear with are all huddled around Calais sitting. That they have less to lose than we may be clear, and that makes the willingness to use violence is not to eschew larger.
Korotm: nice idea, TLN, but I fear that you are truckers, but must learn to live with the status quo, in which the unsafe situation around Calais by the government tolerated. You can’t expect that every 10 metres of a military next to the guardrail and stand posts. The safety of truck drivers is not a priority in France, especially when it is not in French. But that you had already noticed, when your drivers during the boerenprotesten a few months ago under the watchful eyes of the Gendarmes of their cargo robbed.
Photo: the hard daily reality in Calais