Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Influx of migrants: Eurotunnel calls on states to react – Le Parisien

29 Jul 2015, 9:51 |. Update: 29 Jul 2015, 11:03

. a direct response to Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, who had written to the president Tuesday Eurotunnel, reproaching him for having divided by three human resources devoted to safety since 2002. “I wish you were wondering about the human resources to devote to you hear the security of this site, “writes Bernard Cazeneuve to President Eurotunnel, Jacques Gounon. Last week, Jacques Gounon had claimed 9.7 million euros to France and Britain to make up the shortfall for the company, due to the management of this complex issue.

“We have increased the resources in Calais,” said Wednesday Patrick Kanner , Minister of the City, Youth and Sports, explaining that “we must also take Eurotunnel . its responsibilities “

British Prime Minister David Cameron , has, him, worried about the situation in Calais:” This is very worrying. We work closely “with the French authorities to deal with the situation said Cameron reporters on the sidelines of a visit to Singapore, recalling that his interior minister Theresa May today chaired a meeting of emergency Cobra committee, made up of ministers and security officials. It also receives his French counterpart Bernard Cazeneuve, London, to discuss these issues.

Because of a social conflict between the shipping company and the owner of MyFerryLink its boats, the Eurotunnel Group, the port of Calais was blocked largely since June. Many migrants then tried to take advantage of the paralysis of the cross-Channel traffic to get on the trucks stopped in Calais. This context adds considerable pressure throughout the year, Calais, point of closest passage Britain from the European mainland.

“We should expect a proliferation of accidents, “believes his side Marion Marshal Le Pen (FN), which denounced the” laxity of European migration policies and countries including France “that Judge RTL colleague Vaucluse,” promotes ” illegal immigration. For Xavier Bertrand , who will face his aunt Marine Le Pen in the regional in the greater North-Picardie-Pas-de-Calais, it would rather England would promote illegal immigration. “There is no ID card in England, you can go to work there without papers. (…) Stop the hypocrisy with our English friends! They change their rules “which enter the country via France, workers” without papers and paid less. “

The LR member not forget for all knocking on the French Government and Europe. “Fortunately the town of Calais has opened a site where for a few hours each day migrants have a solution (Home),” during which “they are not in contact with the population.” However, “this open-air center, this Sangatte can not last. It takes a refugee center run by UNHCR with discipline, strict rules. We can not let them believe that there will be a job or social benefits, “says the former Minister of Labour on BFM TV.

In the meantime, to Calais, Xavier Bertrand application” superb Franco-British summit Cameron-Valls to resolve all these problems, “the British border is pushed back to Dover and Calais not, there is” more police on the ground and must have instructions farms. ” And to cut the migratory wave to the source, the Republican demand that Europe establishes “a sea blockade in Libyan territorial waters to prevent one million people to come. We must prevent them from dying at sea. We must also resolve conflicts that there are in Libya, assist in the development “of the country.

European Commissioner for Finance, Pierre Moscovici concedes that the European Commission has “not set common migration policy we want. We must go faster “in this area, he provides on Europe 1, emphasizing” cooperation between the Commission states, “” indispensable “

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