It is not ‘grass is
greener on the other side’ – sometimes, the situation in the home front is so
bad that people resort to every means to flee !
Valegro is a famous horse,
the one ridden by the British equestrian
Charlotte Dujardin in the sport of dressage. He stands 16.2hh and has the
stable name of Blueberry. He is a multiple World Champion in Dressage, such as
winning WEG (World Equestrian Games) 2013 and 2014. The combination became part
of the team which won gold in a European Dressage Championship event in
Rotterdam. Selected to represent Great
Britain in the 2012 Summer Olympics, in the first round they set a new Olympic
record.
Dover is a town and major
ferry port in the home county of Kent, in South East England. It faces France
across the narrowest part of the English Channel. The name of the town derives from the name of
the river that flows through it, the River Dour.
More than 2,500 migrants
who are “willing to die” to come to Britain are currently in Calais, the mayor
of the French port has told MPs. Natacha Bouchart, the centre-right UMP mayor
of Calais, told the Commons home affairs committee during a special evidence
session that part of the problem was that the British government had done
nothing to tell potential migrants that there was no ‘El Dorado’ for them in
the UK. Bouchart said that the nature of the migrants, many of whom came from
Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, Syria and Egypt, was changing. They were becoming
more violent with more mafia-types and people traffickers among them. She
claimed that they were desperate to reach Britain because they had heard that
asylum seekers received £36 a week subsistence in the UK.
An illegal immigrant was
caught hanging on to the underside of a horse box transporting a racehorse from
Calais to Dover. Daily Mail reports that
the man was found clinging to the chassis of the horse box carrying Valegro,
which won gold with rider Charlotte Dujardin at the London Olympics in 2012. Police
with sniffer dogs caught the man, who had chosen the largest and most
accessible vehicle in the queue, as the vehicle was readying to return to
England after an event in Norway.
Groom Alan Davies said:
'We had queued at a manned booth to check in for the train, with just a couple
of cars in front of us, and after checking in we were told to pull over once
we'd gone through the barrier. 'I thought they just wanted to check the gas was
off as they do on the trains, but security came over and looked under the
lorry. They then said: "There's someone under there". 'They'd seen
him on CCTV waiting around and when he'd disappeared they became suspicious.' Mr
Davies said that he was shocked by what happened as he had taken precautions to
guard against stowaways. If a trucker is
caught with migrants in his vehicle when on British soil it is the driver, not
the company, who is liable for a £2,000 fine.
Reports suggest that migrants
are flocking to Calais in increasing numbers this year, with up to 2,000 people
living in makeshift shelters as they wait to cross the English channel. The
impoverished conditions in the port city has lead Natacha Bouchart, the mayor
of Calais, to announce a new refuge for migrants, likened by many to the
infamous Red Cross camp at Sangatte. French authorities insist they have been
left with few options after fighting between migrant groups lead to 70 people
being injured this summer, while people have also been targeted by criminals. Just
last month a crew aboard a P&O ferry were forced to turn a firehose on a
crowd of around 250 people as they tried to force their way on to the boat.
British dressage rider
Carl Hester MBE, part of the 2012 team, tweeted: 'Valegro arrived safely back
at Folkestone unlike the illegal immigrant found underneath the lorry!'
With regards – S.
Sampathkumar
3rd Nov. 2014.
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