Second migrant confesses to trailer escape attempt

Joseph W. Galea

Jul 31st 2009, 08:19

@ Margaret Richards.

These two were not being trafficked anywhere.
They simply wanted to leave the Island on their own accord. To charge them with trying to leave the Island without a passport is Mickey Mouse.
If you want them to leave with a passport...give them one. But under all circumstances, let them go where they want to be. As it is, it seems that these people are being held hostage, albeit free to roam around but they cannot leave the Island. Just like the prisoners in the novel by Alexandre Dumas.

Rosalie Freestone-Bayes

Jul 30th 2009, 23:57

I am a Christian. If Mr.Tamer came here illegally, and he wanted to leave, I would have been pleased to see him do so.It's his choice.It was his choice to come here in the first place.I don't think it makes me less of a Christian by admitting that. My goodness, what else did he need? They are given shelter, food and cash. That means the Maltese have shown their Christianity-- by their actions . After all he wasn't deported.

Margaret Richards

Jul 30th 2009, 19:06

The usual saintly people showing their nastiness. Do you know what human trafficking means??? Do you know what it entails?? Do you know that people are sold like cattle, sold and resold over and over again from traffickers to traffickers. The ultimate humiliation is having maltese people favouring 'outward' human trafficking - but mind dear holy idiots, it's human trafficking as much as the incoming ones you know. Had these been coming to malta eh sorry trafficked to Malta you would have moaned, groaned, shouted and screamed blue murder, but once they are being 'trafficked out' you congratulate the trafficker in question. Are you really Maltese christians??

lgalea

Jul 30th 2009, 12:13

Oh what a circus!
Oh what a show!
The Maltese authorities want to be more Christian than the Pope because they take the fingerprints of all illegal immigrants and put them on the Schengen database so that any illegal immigrant who leaves Malta will be sent back while other countries do not even take the fingerprints of 1% of illegal immigrants so that they can leave the country unhindered.

Peter Lawton

Jul 30th 2009, 10:37

I cannot understand how these migrants are charged with trying to escape!, are they prisoners .? I assume they are here of their own free will. Also if they have entered illegally of course they won,t be in possesion of a passport. Let them go and save the island some money and help relieve the mounting tension. Malta you are lovely people, but your country is too small to absorb the increasing number immigrants.

H Dempster

Jul 30th 2009, 10:01

The person, who brought this immigrant back should be reprimanded. We the public should be grateful to Mr Tamar as he would have relieved us from the expense of keeping him , feeding him, paying for his up keep etc, and the government should have given him the 'GIEH IR REPUBLIKA" medal for being of service to our country.

louise vella

Jul 30th 2009, 09:52

Do these illegal immigrants have no family in the African countries they come from?

Did they produce any proof that they have family members in Italy?

This is becoming like a circus. There is only one solution: these people should be sent back to their country of origin or to any other country that wants them.

In the meantime www.corriere.it reports that there were more landings of illegal immigrants in Lampedusa this morning:
Immigrazione: Lampedusa, soccorsa barca con 25 persone a bordo
30 Luglio 2009 08:07 CRONACHE
LAMPEDUSA - Un'imbarcazione su cui viaggiavano 25 persone e' stata soccorsa nella notte, al largo di Lampedusa, da una motovedetta dei carabinieri. Due stavano male e sono state portate sull'isola e affidate a cure mediche, le altre 23 sono state invece condotte a Porto Empedocle. (RCD)