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British journalism student gang-raped in Calais / Police are investigating claims a young journalism student from London has been gang raped in Calais

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Aug 28, 2008, 3:23:19 PM8/28/08
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<--- Before the attack, the victim is believed to have wanted to spend time
with the would-be immigrants in a notorious makeshift camp called 'The
Jungle'

The woman was reporting on illegal immigration from France to Britain and
police believe the attack was carried by some of the men she intended to
write about in the northern France port.

Detectives described the attack as being of a "particularly brutal nature".

Some 100 would-be immigrants to Britain were rounded up by a force of French
riot police and are being questioned as potential witnesses.

The victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was described as "a
London student who had travelled to France to highlight problems surrounding
clandestine immigration."

A local police spokesman added: "She appeared to be working alone, which was
clearly a very dangerous thing to do.

"We fear that the men she was reporting on attacked her in the wood where
they were staying."

The woman is believed to have wanted to spend time with the immigrants in a
notorious makeshift camp called "The Jungle" before the attack happened on
Tuesday night.

Others in the town said she was in her late 20s or early 30s, and taking her
own photographs rather than working with a colleague.

"The Jungle" is part of a disused an industrial zone called The Dunes, a
short walk from the ferry port.

There would-be immigrants make tents out of plastic sheets and build fires.

They are supported by local charities, with the newly elected Right Wing
council in Calais refusing to provide them with permanent accommodation.

Father Jean-Pierre Boutoille, of the refugee charity C'Sur, said: "There are
lots of journalists, including students, who come here to get to the heart
of what's going on, to write reports and produce films.

"When reporters contact us, we always ask to accompany them. We know the
refugees as we see them everyday.

"We would never allow a young female adventurer in this wood, especially not
at night. On Tuesday we did not receive any requests for assistance, and nor
did any other charities."

Most of the vagrants claimed to be from Iraq, Afghanistan, or the Middle
East, although police believe many were from eastern Europe and the Balkans.

One, who asked not to be named, said: "Yes, I saw a young journalist with a
camera. Lots come this way.

"I don't know who she was exactly, but she was young, perhaps 30, and a
student from London. The word is that something happened to her in the
woods."

In 2005 a gang of would-be immigrants was implicated in the rape of a
resident of Oye-Plage, near Calais.

But while fights between immigrants competing for routes into Britain are
commonplace, this is believed to be the first time that a journalist trying
to highlight their plight has been attacked.

Calais became a magnet for immigrants in the late 90s following the opening
of the Sangatte Cross Centre, which housed 67,000 immigrants over three
years.

Before its closure in 2002 following an agreement between the French and
British governments many tried to jump on to slow-moving trains at the
entrance to the Channel Tunnel, or hide inside lorries crossing to Britain
on ferries.

The election of a new Right Wing council in Calais saw plans to open a
Sangatte II abandoned, but would-be immigrants to Britain still arrive by
the day.

The Home Office said the number of refugees caught entering Britain
illegally from Calais has fallen to around 1,500 a year from 10,000 in 2002,
when Sangatte closed.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/2637452/British-journalism-student-gang-raped-in-Calais.html


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enforced upon the white world against the will of its peoples, leading to
mass immigration from the third-world: Mul-cul + pol-corr = lethal mixture
for the white world. And give us back our freedom: Dismantle all
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