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First results of Merkel's mass immigration don't look promising. Cologne, Paris, ..
Footage from Stalingrad metro, where more than a thousand migrants have been living rough, showed hundreds of men brawling with metal poles and planks of wood.
Almost 1,000 migrants have arrived in the area in just over a month, many travelling from Calais having crossed the Mediterranean from Africa and the Middle East.
French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve had earlier announced the removal of the camp in a joint statement with Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo, but the migrants returned with makeshift mattresses two weeks later.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3543237/Video-Stalingrad-Metro-Paris-shows-violent-clashes-erupt-migrant-camp.html#ixzz468IlaL5W
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2naSalit
(86,538 posts)and I think we need to rethink how we handle our affairs overseas... like stop making wars and resulting refugees. And Europe is now dealing with what they helped us create... this mess.
Albertoo
(2,016 posts)Germany's Schroeder and France's Chirac opposed GW's Iraq War.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)It's a very different situation from the people coming to Germany
Albertoo
(2,016 posts)Since 2009, there have been anywhere from 100 to 4000 migrants in Calais attempting to cross into the UK, with many other communities scattered across the coastline of northern France. People have come from all over the world, from Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Egypt, Syria, Sudan, Palestine, Chad, Eritrea, Iraq, Albania, Senegal, Kurdistan, Libya and Ethiopia with the biggest communities often being those from East Africa and Afghanistan.
https://calaismigrantsolidarity.wordpress.com/introduction-to-calais/
muriel_volestrangler
(101,307 posts)(and this too) so, no, it doesn't really have much to do with Merkel's policy on Syrian refugees, does it?
Albertoo
(2,016 posts)Her policy is directed at anyone who makes it to the shores of Greece.
(now, this includes the new Libya to Italy route that just got reactivated)
muriel_volestrangler
(101,307 posts)The government announced in August that it would deal with Syrian asylum applications regardless of where the migrants first arrived in the EU. Up until then, people had to claim asylum with the first EU country they reached.
Tens of thousands of mainly Syrian migrants have been making their way from Turkey, through the Balkans and Hungary to reach Austria, Germany and Sweden.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-34231905
The policy was clearly in response to the surge in arrivals, mostly Syrian, in Greece.
But the main problem with your OP is that it's about Paris, not somewhere in Germany. Migrant camps in France date from before Merkel even came to power in Germany - eg Sangatte: http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/may/23/immigration.immigrationandpublicservices1
Albertoo
(2,016 posts)True, the migrant camp in Sangatte existed before Merkel's open door policy. But the OP was indeed about Paris where the refugee population is now larger than just those relocated from Sangatte. Notably because the Paris mayor embraced Merkel's quotas policy.
Jeffersons Ghost
(15,235 posts)Last edited Mon Apr 18, 2016, 09:44 AM - Edit history (3)
Is the "#t=37" some kind of code. Are some people code-killers?
muriel_volestrangler
(101,307 posts)It works if you paste the full URL, ending in that "#t=37", into your browser title, but not if you paste it into the body of a DU post.