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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis is frightening -they're all hypocrites treating migrants worse than other animals
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/14/french-border-police-accused-of-cutting-soles-off-migrant-childrens-shoes<snip>
French border police have been accused of detaining migrant children as young as 12 in cells without food or water, cutting the soles off their shoes and stealing sim cards from their mobile phones, before illegally sending them back to Italy.
A report released on Friday by the charity Oxfam also cites the case of a very young Eritrean girl, who was forced to walk back to the Italian border town of Ventimiglia along a road with no pavement . The allegations, which come from testimony gathered by Oxfam workers and partner organisations, come two months after French border police were accused of falsifying the birth dates of unaccompanied migrant children in an attempt to pass them off as adults and send them back to Italy.
And in other ways the border police intimidate them for example, cutting the soles off their shoes is a way of saying, Dont try to come back.
Some children have their mobile phone seized and sim card removed. They lose their data and phonebook. They cannot even call their parents afterwards.
Italy accused France of hypocrisy this week for failing to share the burden of the ongoing migrant crisis. The spat developed when the French president, Emmanuel Macron, criticised what he called Italys cynicism and irresponsibility in turning away a migrant rescue ship with 629 people on board.
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This is frightening -they're all hypocrites treating migrants worse than other animals (Original Post)
malaise
Jun 2018
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G_j
(40,372 posts)1. Link not working for me
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roamer65
(36,748 posts)3. Just imagine what the cruelty will be like when we reach 11 billion.
I am very skeptical the human race will survive the next 100 years.
We are really shitting in our own nest, big time.
Malaise,
malaise
(269,328 posts)4. That is one factor
The other is racism.
roamer65
(36,748 posts)5. You are correct.
WhiteTara
(29,736 posts)6. These people are REFUGEES not migrants.
The media keeps using that word to signify they're just on migration; not fleeing for their lives.
malaise
(269,328 posts)7. Mostly because of wars financed by the West
It's sickening
WhiteTara
(29,736 posts)8. Yes it is.