Illegal Immigrant found hanging off the side of a eurostar

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Re: Illegal Immigrant found hanging off the side of a eurostar

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Easilyconfused wrote:
ralph0chadkirk wrote:Still corners will pose a problem, as well as trying to hang on, and what if he needed the loo? :D
Well what do you think - he just goes on the spot. They are that desperate in a lot of cases to get here.

A few years ago a friend of mine who works for a freight forwarding company had first hand experience of this. They had a container come back from Croatia supposedly only containing packaging for reuse on the next shipment. The driver(s) brought it all the way from Croatia and sat out a 2 day delay at Calais. Then when they pitched up back in the yard the container was offloaded and put in the pile waiting it's next load. A day later workers heard faint hammering from the container and found 3 people inside and an indescribable smell / sight. It was all hushed up since the European elections were due within a week so they didn't want to hand the BNP guys extra ammunition. I think they just deported the guys back to Croatia.

I don't want to divert this into a political debate but it does show how desperate some people are to reach this country.
Of course they are. This is a good country.
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