Events of the last week have demonstrated the fierce determination of some migrants to reach their European destination of choice. Last Sunday, hundreds of migrants stormed the frontier dividing Morocco from Ceuta, a Spanish enclave on the African coast. The Moroccan police fired bullets into the air to ward off the intruders. ‘They do this deliberately to scare and keep us from trying again but it won’t stop us,’ said one of those migrants who had failed to reach Spain. ‘We’ll keep coming back as many times as needed’.
A few hours earlier and many hundreds of miles north, a group of around sixty migrants encountered three local men hunting ducks in Tardinghen, fifteen miles west of Calais. The hunters phoned the police to warn that the migrants were about to launch a boat towards England.
This is not the first time that Major has let ingenuousness get the better of him
Enraged at their failed attempt, the migrants tracked the hunters to their lodge.
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