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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
2022-06-27
[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
Related:
Melilla: 2022-06-26 Spain says 18 died in deadly migrant rush 'attack' on its territory
Melilla: 2022-06-25 New EU migrant chaos: More than 2,000 migrants storm fence into Spanish enclave bordering Morocco using shears to cut wire and rush past guards in chaotic scenes at the European Union's only land border in Africa
Melilla: 2022-04-28 Spain Strips Nationality From 78 Babies After Migrant Mothers’ Citizenship Lies Uncovered
Posted by:Skidmark

#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  

#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  

#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  

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