[matilda] european shoot-to-kill on refugees

[fabian]

Hi there, this is another call to join the march in solidarity with 
refugees in Bolton on Satuarday in the light of recent developments on 
southern european border
get details for transport from sheffield  and your ticket from
alison.higgins1 at btinternet.com

After years and years of deliberatly letting people die in the attempt 
to get into Europe, it seems that the EU is now starting a 
shoot-to-kill policy on refugees on the southern borders....

news this morning from
http://www.spiegel-online.de

spanish info:
http://estrecho.indymedia.org/newswire/display/15720/index.php

odd translation (sorry..)

  The scenes resembled a storm on the Fortress Europe. 4-500 refugees 
tried to arrive this night again from Morocco at the Spanish territory 
of the Exklave Ceuta. Spanish police have killed two with rubber 
projectiles.
After the third mass attempt of African refugees to arrive on Spanish 
Territory in Morocco within three days Madrid sends soldiers, in order 
to strengthen the border police. An joint attempt of several hundred to 
cross the border of the spanish exclave Ceuta in Afrika gave the excuse 
for the troop deployment, after in the last night rush at least four 
Africans died.
According to the governor of Ceuta, Jeronimo Nieto Gonzales,  two 
humans suffocated or crushed when crossing the double checked fence. 
According to the Spanish ministry of the Interior, one of the men got 
stuck in the fence, another was probably dead-trampled.
According to Moroccan sources two refugees were killed by rubber 
projectiles, which were fired from the Spanish side. At least 50 
African hurt themselves with their desperate attempt to arrive on 
Spanish territory. According to Spanish reports approximately a hundred 
refugees arrived at the Spanish side of the border. They were taken 
into care  by physician teams.
  The authorities were surprised of the mass of the refugees and their 
coordinated attempt, as the representative of the ministry of the 
Interior in Ceuta, Nieto Gonzales, explained. "the security forceses 
were alarmed, but they did not expect so many humans", he said in the 
Spanish radio.
  Secretary of Defense José Bono said Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez 
Zapatero asked for the deployment of soldiers. "I received the order to 
strengthen the border police in Ceuta and Melilla with troops", he 
said. How large the contingent will be, it could not be said yet. The 
camps for receiving refugees in Ceuta and Melilla are in the meantime 
totally overloaded, because with each wave hundreds succeed in crossing 
the border . They climb the fences, in order to down-jump on the other 
site. The refugees come from countries south of the Sahara and want to 
arrive in Europe, in order to escape from the poverty and the misery in 
their homeland.