Illegals in Calais
We’re not the only ones with the problems…
Just half a mile from the ferry terminal in Calais, a UK-bound lorry driver at the weekend makes the mistake of slowing down to a crawl on the A26 Autoroute des Anglais dual carriageway.
At a signal from their fixers, around 100 illegal migrants arise from the wooded verge where they have been concealed and try to swarm aboard the vehicle, and others behind, desperate to find somewhere inside or underneath they could stow away to reach the UK.
So intent are they to get to what they see as a land of easy asylum, council housing and generous benefits that they risk being crushed by the trucks’ wheels. Some carry crowbars or knives to try to prise open a chink in the lorries’ defences.