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2022-06-27 Europe

Moroccan police accused of 'brutality' as officer is filmed using his baton to strike wounded migrant lying helpless on the ground surrounded by bodies - as death toll rises to 37 after 2,000 stormed fence to enter Spanish enclave

[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]

Horror images show scores of bodies piled up next to Africa-EU border fence

Some 2,000 migrants tried to scale wall into Spain's Moroccan enclave Melilla

But crowd pile-ups and reported police brutality resulted in dozens of deaths

NGO Walking Without Borders claims at least 37 dead; official figure still 23

Posted by Skidmark 2022-06-27 00:10|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top
File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1 A Spanish police source said the migrants who stormed the fence had used sticks, knives and acid against security forces and had changed tactics to try crossing at one perceived weak spot en masse, rather than in separate attempts along the fence.

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-06-27 14:35|| 2022-06-27 14:35|| Front Page Top

#2 That's nothing. We used to beg to be beaten into a bloody pulp by Moroccan police when I was growing up.

Posted by jpal 2022-06-27 16:35|| 2022-06-27 16:35|| Front Page Top

#3 They repelled invaders. What's the problem? The death toll should have been in the hundreds, at least.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2022-06-27 17:31|| 2022-06-27 17:31|| Front Page Top

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