Nigerian jailed for trying to escape

anthea doughty

Mar 3rd 2010, 21:18

@Tony Gatt
Enough of the grotty UK thank you - Malta has its share of grotty places!

The UK was once a beautiful island - what makes us the target for all these so called refugees is the most generous benefits system in the EU - courtesy of the likes of me, a working tax paying individual. Malta should make it less difficult for legal self sufficient migrants and more diffiult if not impossible for those who are not able to fund their own stays however long or short...... This story should not even be in the news, a Nigerian should not even have been allowed to stay in Malta after having arrived illegally.

@Andrew Paris- let him escape to where?! The only place this man should have been allowed to go was back to Nigeria!

Keith D'Amato

Mar 3rd 2010, 16:52

He probably came to know that his time here in Malta was coming to an end. Not to be deported he tried to "escape" knowing well he would have been caught and jailed = more free time in malta.

Tony Gatt

Mar 3rd 2010, 14:53

The poor chap was probably only trying to escape to the "grotty" old U.K!

Joe Grech

Mar 3rd 2010, 14:48

This is a judgement I cannot agree with! Why not let the poor man go?
If he had not been given any travel documents (as is probably his right) was it his fault that he used false documents?
We have now reached the ridiculous point where we are actually FORCING illegal immigrants to remain here. Anybody concerned with Human Rights?
Hopefully somebody from JRS and possibly His Excellency President Emeritus Dr. Edward Fenech Adami will do something to address this rather unfortunate situation.

Andrew Paris

Mar 3rd 2010, 14:35

Jail him? He is already in jail living on an island where he does not want to be.
Like Lybia and the rest of Brussels, Malta should turn a blind eye and let him escape.