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Pictures of yesterdays tragedy

klopapier — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 12:22:54 +0000

Here you can see the covered bodies of immigrants after their death was certified and several agents of the ‘Guardia Civil‘, two of them recovering a body from the waterat the ‘Risco Verde‘ beach in Agüimes. You can also see the half sunk ‘patera‘ and it being pulled out of the water later on and the enormous efforts done supported by the rescue helicopter and the sea rescue patrol boat.
Really sad images that immigration gives us almost every day.

PICTURE SOURCE : www.canarias7.es – Borja Suárez

Worse than immigration

klopapier — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 21:22:21 +0000

If the immigration for itself,

wasn’t hard enough, as people give up all their savings for just an opportunity to make it alive to a 1st world country, to try for a better life, risking their lives and normaly resulting in an almost certain repatriation, things like this unluckily happen more often every time.

The tragedy happened yesterday at daybreak when a ‘patera‘, those small, unstable boats, subsaharian immigrants use to get here from Africa, arrived at the ‘risco verde‘ beach in Agüimes at darkness, or at least that is what the occupants thought. What really happened is that they docked to an underwater rock formation, 20 meters off shore, which the immigrants thought to be the beach, but which in reality was surrounded by 2 meters(6 feet) of water, causing 10 of the 16 immigrants to drown.

The Chief of the ‘GEAS‘, the special group for scuba activities from the ‘Guardia Civil‘(one of our police corps), Juan Ortega Machín said that it wasn’t clear that the reason for them to drown was that they couldn’t swim since, even if they could, they all arrive exhausted and numb, packed with clothes and tend to drown instantaneously.

According to the ‘GEAS‘, 5 of the 10 casualties were said to be between age 16 and 20. The other 6 occupants survived and were taken to the hospital affected with hypoglycemia and hypothermia.

Really sad

Immigration continues

klopapier — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 12:37:10 +0000

I read in a newspaper article this morning,

that the ‘central government’ (those ‘fellas’ sitting in Madrid) “is prepared for the massive arrival of irregular immigrants“. I’m not an expert but I think I’ll allow myself a little bit of a constructive critic…

What the hell does this supposed to mean??
They are prepared to do all the “hard paperwork” ???
They have every thought organized and know what form to grab for and where to sign it when immigrants arrive?

C’mon guys!! What about all the people that work hard on a patrol boat freezing their asses up on rough sea. Those ‘fellas’ from sea rescue and the red cross and other voluteers, that see nothing but desperation of surviving or the hope of a new life in those poor peoples eyes when they arrive or try not to drown while being recued. Those people should be honored and rewarded.

So, with all do respect, How about some of you ‘pencilpushers’ bring your ass up here and help?!?!