discussion 37 Africans dead, 100s injured in Spanish-Moroccan police massacre at Melilla border

[State of Grace.]

Spain’s Socialist Party (PSOE)-Podemos government, working with Moroccan police acting as the European Union’s border guards, have carried out a barbaric massacre at the borders of the Spanish enclave of Melilla in Africa.

 

At least 37 migrants were killed and 150 more were injured when thousands tried to cross the Moroccan border into Melilla on Friday. According to the UNHCR, many came from Chad, Niger, Sudan and South Sudan, and would be considered potential asylum seekers according to international law.

 

The precise cause of the deaths remains unclear. Some migrants may have died from suffocation or crushing because of a stampede provoked by Moroccan police charges. Other deaths may have occurred when some fell from the top of the fence: at the place on the border where the massacre took place, the border fence rises to between 6 and 10 meters in height. Other may have been directly killed by police who hit them with stones and batons.

 

Significant police repression by Spain’s Civil Guard and National Police left at least 60 migrants injured, two of them in hospital. According to the Spanish government representative in Melilla, police forces of the two sides of the border worked collaboratively in “a joint operation,” with tear gas and baton charges against the crowd from both sides.

 

Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez hailed the massacre. Promoted in the media as having a more “humane” policy towards migrants when he came to power in mid-2018, Sánchez hailed the police and denounced the victims in words that could have been said by any far-right leader, from former US President Donald Trump to Santiago Abascal of Spain’s fascistic Vox party.

 

Sánchez condemned the migrants’ attempted mass crossing as a “violent assault” and an “attack on the territorial integrity” of Spain. He cynically blamed it on human trafficking, saying: “If there is anyone responsible for everything that appears to have taken place at that border, it is the mafias that traffic in human beings.”

 

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/06/27/qwyt-j27.html

 

 

 

  

Edited June 27, 2022 by State of Grace.

[Illuminati]

Horrifying images, just when you think there's no more faith left to lose in humanity it gets worse.

 

However the narrative the article is painting is worrying as well, the majority of it is trying to justify Russian war against Ukraine by blaming it on Europe.

 

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These horrific scenes testify to the barbaric character of the European Union. To the east, NATO’s proxy war against Russia in Ukraine has led to tens of thousands of deaths and millions of refugees. To its south, the EU is arraying the full force of its police-military machine against migrants, thousands of whom are left to drown in the Mediterranean each year.

This sounds like it's coming straight out of Russian propaganda, how is NATO responsible for the killings that Russia is committing in Ukraine, that they would have committed even if Ukraine didn't receive extra guns to defend themselves? Why does the author have to deflect from the horrors happening at the Spanish border and bring up "NATO proxy war in Ukraine" completely downplaying the reality of what's going on there

Edited June 27, 2022 by Illuminati

[My Tears Ricochet]

Horrifying. RIP to the victims 

[Power love]

This breaks my heart 

[sugarysunflower]

It's a horrific act to commit.

 

It's spills onto the bigger picture though, what is the end goal....what do European and MENA governments get from this? Bad press from MENA for not informing their citizens the dangers of illegal asylum and then images of barbaric European systems trying to keep out said asylums.
 

There's an increasingly frustrated, slowly increasing, mind-adjusted right wing mentality for European-ancestral populations (as seen in elections across Italy, France, UK etc.) who are becoming heavily concerned with Middle East/African migration and its effect on a fragmented and segregated society, intolerances of different religions and cultural practices - having an effect on crime, "destruction" of the vision of one's nation's history and landscape, inflationary housing crises and the health, education, pensions and insurance systems. 

 

It started with Middle Eastern interference, but corrupt fear-mongering governments, a lack of education and more climate change disasters will just sadly lead to more of these crises, and become the normal fabric of European coastal life.  

Edited June 27, 2022 by sugarysunflower

[Bicassie]

Racism is alive and well in Europe

This is yet another case of total disregard of human life

 

it’s sick and pure evil

Edited June 27, 2022 by Bicassie

[ProudLBS]

yikes, no one deserves to die like this 

 

Morocco is the safest country in Africa, they should stay there. I guess it’s time to build a taller fence.

 

OT: ‘World Socialism Web Site’ 

[Gov Hooka]

9 hours ago, Illuminati said:

Horrifying images, just when you think there's no more faith left to lose in humanity it gets worse.

 

However the narrative the article is painting is worrying as well, the majority of it is trying to justify Russian war against Ukraine by blaming it on Europe.

 

This sounds like it's coming straight out of Russian propaganda, how is NATO responsible for the killings that Russia is committing in Ukraine, that they would have committed even if Ukraine didn't receive extra guns to defend themselves? Why does the author have to deflect from the horrors happening at the Spanish border and bring up "NATO proxy war in Ukraine" completely downplaying the reality of what's going on there

It’s pointing out the glaring hypocrisy of NATO/EU nations treating white refugees differently than Black and brown refugees. Not to mention that these very same nations decry Russia for their invasion when they are directly responsible for the dire economic conditions all African nations are suffering from causing them to have to resort to life threatening journeys to find a better life elsewhere. NATO and its member states can fight a proxy war in Ukraine and directly contribute to the refugee crisis there (while accepting those refugees) while shooting dead refugees coming from countries they have economically looted for decades and are currently looting via their own multinational extractive corporations. 

[AlanRickman1946]

9 hours ago, Illuminati said:

Horrifying images, just when you think there's no more faith left to lose in humanity it gets worse.

 

However the narrative the article is painting is worrying as well, the majority of it is trying to justify Russian war against Ukraine by blaming it on Europe.

 

This sounds like it's coming straight out of Russian propaganda, how is NATO responsible for the killings that Russia is committing in Ukraine, that they would have committed even if Ukraine didn't receive extra guns to defend themselves? Why does the author have to deflect from the horrors happening at the Spanish border and bring up "NATO proxy war in Ukraine" completely downplaying the reality of what's going on there

But i guess there are a lot of CIA agents in ukraine so it is kind of a proxy war.

 

CIA agents are said to be operating in Ukraine, helping Kyiv’s forces with vast amounts of intelligence.

Despite President Biden insisting the White House will not deploy US troops in Ukraine, CIA personnel are reportedly playing a crucial role by orchestrating the intelligence-sharing operation between the US and Kyiv, according to The New York Times.

[Robert]

**** the police, utter barbarians with no respect for human life.

[frenchyisback]

This is so sad. 

The silence on this thread too 

People here truly does not care about undocumented immigrants. They only care about them when they can use it as a tool to attack the US government.

Edited July 3, 2022 by frenchyisback