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Van driver dies in Calais crash caused by Muslim migrants’ blockade

Jun 20, 2017 11:09 am By Robert Spencer

Muslim migrants, among whom are an unknowable number of jihadis, are determined to reach Britain. Once they get there, they will find it increasingly like the places they left, and that further efforts to make it like their homeland will be met with little resistance, because such resistance is “Islamophobic.”

“Van driver dies in Calais crash caused by refugees’ blockade,” by Kim Willsher, Guardian, June 20, 2017:

A van driver has died near Calais after refugees blockaded a motorway with tree trunks, causing a crash in which the vehicle caught fire.

The vehicle, reportedly registered in Poland, ignited early on Tuesday morning after ploughing into a lorry that had been forced to stop because of the obstruction.

French authorities said it was the first time such a makeshift roadblock had caused the death of a driver since the arrival of large numbers of refugees in the area in 2014.

The accident happened at about 3.45am on the A16 motorway near Guemps, a farming community five miles south-east of Calais.

“A barrage of tree trunks was set up by migrants on the A16 between junctions 49 and 50,” the local prefecture said in a statement. “This caused the death of the driver of a van registered in Poland. The van hit one of three HGVs blocked by the barrage and caught fire.”

Officials said the identity of the driver was difficult to establish because of the extent of the burns. French police said they arrested nine Eritreans found aboard one of the blockaded lorries. The A16 was closed.

In May, refugees desperate to cross the Channel to the UK began to regroup near France’s eastern ports and the Channel tunnel. Last autumn the French authorities cleared thousands of people from the refugee camp near Calais.

By blocking roads leading to the Calais ferry port, refugees aim to slow lorries and other vehicles enough to jump aboard and hide. However, police had believed the problem had been stopped by the closure of the camp.

At least 8,000 migrants, among them around 1,200 minors, from impromptu camps in the coastal region, were redistributed to cities, towns and villages across France last October. Most had made their way to Calais after long land and sea journeys from Afghanistan, Sudan and Eritrea.

Still desperate to reach Britain, many have since returned. Their hopes of doing so have been thwarted by increasingly higher walls, razor wire and security around the port and Channel tunnel….

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  1. ConnectingDots says

    Jun 20, 2017 at 11:16 am

    The English translation of Calais?

    Anarchy by jihadis

  2. Malcolm (South Afric) says

    Jun 20, 2017 at 11:34 am

    The time for the Left, politicians to put a smiley face on Islam is over.

    I couldnt agree more with Monsignor Velasio De Paolis, secretary of the Vatican’s supreme court,

    “Enough now with this turning the other cheek! It’s our duty to protect ourselves.” Thus spoke Monsignor Velasio De Paolis, secretary of the Vatican’s supreme court, referring to Muslims. Explaining his apparent rejection of Jesus’ admonition to his followers to “turn the other cheek,” De Paolis noted that “The West has had relations with the Arab countries for half a century…and has not been able to get the slightest concession on human rights.”

    • balam says

      Jun 20, 2017 at 11:48 am

      Jesus never told to keep turning the other cheek for ever . May be just once but the next time I would like to break the offenders neck so that he could not strike again.

      • Mak says

        Jun 20, 2017 at 11:55 am

        Ashin Wirathu, a Burmese Buddhist monk said “You can be full of kindness and love, but you cannot sleep next to a mad dog.”

        Peace and loving kindness are wonderful. But if you are so loving that you put the Islamic sword on your neck for them then you aren’t showing loving kindness to yourself.

        The rest of the world can follow a message of peace together — by exterminating the cancer that is Islam. I assure you Islam is trying to exterminate everything non-islamic.

  3. Kiki says

    Jun 20, 2017 at 11:36 am

    One major thing protestors in any country forget about causing road-blocks, is the danger it causes.

    Not only can it endanger the drivers via accidents or mobs or fires, but there’s a much more basic reason: what if an ambulance needs to drive that way to help someone?

    Impromptu roadblocks will slow ambulances responding to heart-attacks, or house-fires, or domestic violence. In those types of situations seconds count, and a roadblock or large crowd in the road could easily cost an ambulance time, and cost someone else their life.

    So, a word of advice to people who want to protest anything: do it in a way that will not endanger other people’s lives.

    • somehistory says

      Jun 20, 2017 at 12:56 pm

      The *people* that made this roadblock do not care if someone dies. They only care about shedding blood, rape, theft and destruction for their fake god, satan the devil.

      If they know they had caused the death of a non-oslum, they would not feel sorrow, but that the infidel deserved to die. If it had been a moslum who died, they wouldn’t cry over that either, but try to twist it to make the authorities at fault…for making them create a roadblock.

      If they cared about people dying, they wouldn’t be moslum.

      • Janice Disher says

        Jun 21, 2017 at 8:03 am

        Spot on

      • Janice Disher says

        Jun 21, 2017 at 8:05 am

        somehistory says – you are quite correct

  4. marina says

    Jun 20, 2017 at 11:54 am

    Macron will save you France!!

    • Vlad says

      Jun 21, 2017 at 3:50 am

      The French will always be there when they need you 🙂

      Advise to ALL truck drivers in Europe: Tie beacon onto all your door handles, it will deter some at least.

      • Mary says

        Jun 22, 2017 at 3:40 am

        Love it!

  5. Irene Brekelmans says

    Jun 20, 2017 at 12:20 pm

    A terrible death for the driver and I am so sorry.
    I wonder when the UK and France run out of taxpayers money, when I see all the firemen, ambulance personnel, police who have to show up again. What a complete mess. Are people blind or what?And it gets me too, that the leftists don’t say a word about the Jews, it almost becomes like the Holocaust never happened. Before at schools, in movies and TV, it was always on and there were always teachers and people who had survived the Holocaust warning the young people about the horror things that happened. Silence ! This has just shown me that you can not count on your neighbours or friends almost in terrible times(excl. the amount of good ones, who did try to help and helped and took risks for their own lives and that of their families). We saw different billboards then written :NEVER AGAIN! AFTER THE WAR. .A LOT OF PEOPLE GOT DEHUMANIZED, AND NOT ONLY MUSLIMS.

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 20, 2017 at 10:32 pm

      Irene, it is not Infidels who are acting like this.

  6. ItsReallyQuiteClear says

    Jun 20, 2017 at 12:51 pm

    Yes, Irene.

    “Never again” has only become “Again and again”. Not only against Jews but against many different groups. The world appears to do nothing, and it appears to learn nothing.

  7. dragaozao says

    Jun 20, 2017 at 1:50 pm

    Not so slowly, the west is falling into caos. RIP

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 20, 2017 at 10:33 pm

      You need to *fight back*, not counsel surrender.

  8. John A. Marre says

    Jun 20, 2017 at 3:04 pm

    It’s intentional murder.

  9. abad says

    Jun 20, 2017 at 6:23 pm

    First of all they are NOT in any way refugees.

    They are Moslem invaders who should be sent back to their country of origin.

    • Laine says

      Jun 20, 2017 at 7:28 pm

      How can Muslims from any Islamic country be “refugees” when they set about trying to get the exact same conditions including sharia law that made their home countries unlivable? They are invaders and colonists when they bring the backward ways of their native land with them instead of rejecting their primitive belief system for more civilized ways.

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 20, 2017 at 10:34 pm

      +1

    • Mary says

      Jun 22, 2017 at 3:41 am

      Spot on.

  10. billybob says

    Jun 20, 2017 at 10:06 pm

    “Still desperate to reach Britain, many have since returned. Their hopes of doing so have been thwarted by increasingly higher walls, razor wire and security around the port and Channel tunnel….”
    …but encouraged by the Soros funded NGOs who continue to hand out bottled water and sandwiches to whoever they encounter in Calais.

  11. gravenimage says

    Jun 20, 2017 at 10:29 pm

    Van driver dies in Calais crash caused by Muslim migrants’ blockade
    …………………….

    This *poor man* and his loved ones. Muslims have threatened and beaten drivers before; this is the first time they have killed someone on the road through Calais–but probably not the last.

    And why are these thugs “desperate” to reach Britain?

    France is a civilized country with lots of opportunity. The idea that they are driven to flee France is utter bs. Not that French people deserve these thugs, either…

  12. Ginny says

    Jun 21, 2017 at 3:39 am

    Doesn’t anyone except “islamophobes” notice that this situation is absurd? The emperor has no clothes. It is hard to believe this is STILL going on! Europe deserves its fate.

  13. Carolyne says

    Jun 21, 2017 at 11:03 am

    Because Britain had lost control of Calais to the French, Queen Mary Tudor said, “When I am dead and my heart is cut open, you will find the word, ‘Calais.’ ” I believe that would be the case with the present political rulers of England. Building that Channel Tunnel was the worst mistake the British ever made. It was the English Channel which historically protected them from invasion by Europe. They have given up their protection and now the invaders are from the MIddle East.

  14. robert_k says

    Jun 21, 2017 at 4:18 pm

    Calais, the wrongly assumed location of the D-Day invasion from Britain, is the assumed location of the Higra invasion into Britain.

    • Hoekom Jy My Haat says

      Jun 21, 2017 at 4:22 pm

      As Mrs Slocombe once said, “the Wogs start at Calais”. Never truer.

  15. HfS communications says

    Sep 17, 2017 at 3:25 pm

    Muslim leaders and preachers proclaim the evil and fanatical ideology of Islam, which forms the core belief of muslim identity. They revile and preach hatred of Christians, Jews and non believers who are called Kuffar or Kafir. Islam is an extremely dangerous, extremely violent, misogynist, barbaric idealogy. The Koran states: “Kill the unbelievers wherever you find them” and “Maim and crucify the infidels”, just two of many violent verses in the Koran. Muslims reject and disdain western values of freedom and democracy, but cunningly use all the powers of democratic legitimacy to subvert western secular society to further their aims of establishing a Muslim Caliphate(State). They aggressively demand:- The construction of more mosques, the subjugation and covering of women by the hijab(head cover), niqab (veil) or total bodily cover (burka). Life for most muslim women is a dystopian nightmare and they are systematically brainwashed to accept forced, arranged and ploygamous marriages, sexual abuse is commonplace including marriages of children and minors, girls suffer cruel bestial and utterly barbaric fgm-female genital mutilation, (punishable by up to 14 years in prison under English Law, but few cases are brought before the courts). Farm animals are cruelly butchered without pre stunning in the carnage that is halal slaughter. Muslims advocate criminal justice sanctioning punishments of horrifying medieval savagery, including public beheading, crucifixion, stoning to death, hanging, amputation, muslims who convert to Christianity are sentenced to death. The consumption of alcohol is forbidden and punished by flogging and imprisonment, although currently unenforcable in Britain. The Archbishop of Canterbury has warned that Christians are being deliberately attacked because of their faith in parts of the muslim world and even martyred for their faith in large numbers. An affront to the civilized world, ‘Islamic State’ and its terrorist army are killing and torturing with merciless savagery across the world in the Middle East, North Africa, the Far East, the U.S.A. and Europe. Millions of muslims live in Britain and many of them support ‘jihad’ i.e. bloody atrocities and mass murder committed by their activists who call themselves ‘soldiers of allah’. Let nobody be under any illusion spread by their preachers and propagandists that islam is ‘a religion of peace’, because anyone who dares to speak out against muslims risks being murdered and butchered by their killers.We need to dispel the myth that terrorists are not muslims and muslim idealogy does not condone violence. Muslim terrorists kill with random acts of extreme violence to cause mass murder wherever they strike and they will go on killing until every country with a large muslim population is turned into a warzone.
    British soldiers are frequently subjected to death threats. On Wednesday 22 May 2013, a day of infamy, the full force of muslim savagery found its target and willing perpetrators , two ‘soldiers of allah’ committed the brutal bloody murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby. There are currently an estimated 14,000 muslims in UK prisons at an annual cost of over £750 million, most of them are extremely dangerous. Due to the lax and lenient British Criminal Justice System, many of them could be released early, free to carry out terrorist attacks to murder and maim potentially thousands of people. The British Government will have failed its primary duty to maintain the security and protection of its citizens.
    Islamic idealogy is fundamentally opposed to the collective conscience of the majority of British people and sets muslims in direct conflict with the values of Western Civilization. Higher muslim birth rates will produce a majority muslim population in large parts of Britain by the year 2035. Europe as a whole is facing a demographic time-bomb and is confronted by a huge increase in the muslim population. England is on course to become a muslim country before the end of the century. The supreme symbol of muslim dominance will be the conversion of Canterbury Cathedral into a mosque, destroying over one thousand four hundred years of Christian Civilization and History. Muslim leaders will be exultant to repeat the historic precedent of 1453, when the leader of the Ottoman Turks, Sultan Memhed ll ordered the Hagia Sophia, the main church of Orthodox Christianity to be converted into a mosque, symbolising his conquest of Constantinople. Christian worshipers were slaughtered without mercy or sold into slavery and the building was desecrated and looted.
    By the year 2035, muslims will dominate Britain through sheer force of numbers, the direct result of muslim immigration and generous state welfare & child benefits. Ideal conditions for muslims to procreate and supplant the indigenous British population and take over the country,having already infiltrated The Great Offices of State,the civil service, the police, the judiciary, regional and local authorities, public services and education, all of them suffused with political correctness and multiculturalism.

    Anyone who opined to members gathered in the bar of a Surrey golf club at the end of the twentieth century that their way of life and culture could be replaced by islam within thirty years would be rebuked for talking nonsense, not anymore. The inveterate moral cowardice of the British political class and liberal governing élite for failing to STOP mass muslim immigration is a betrayal of the British People and will bring this country to breaking point. Britain will be faced with the most serious crisis in its entire history and the stark choice of either fighting to remain a predominantly Christian Social Democracy, with nothing less than national survival at stake, or surrender to a Theocratic Muslim Dictatorship aka Caliphate and descent into a new dark age of barbarism, terror and chaos.
    The battle for the defence of Judeo-Christian Civilization against this malignant, barbaric, evil creed will continue a conflict which has lasted for centuries, except this time THE ENEMY IS WITHIN.”The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men (and Women) to do nothing”, Edmund Burke 18th century statesman, author and philosopher.
    footnote: Canterbury Cathedral is under armed guard.

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