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RIOT POLICE STOP ANARCHIST ASSAULT ON BRITAIN'S BORDERS

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BLOCKADE: Police stopped protesters

Monday June 29,2009

By Nick Fagge

NEARLY 50 protesters were arrested in Calais as they tried to help hundreds of illegal migrants walk into Britain during a week of protests against UK border regulations.

Heavily armed riot police were drafted in after the activists – from Britain, Germany, Italy and France – threatened to tear down fencing around the Channel Tunnel and lead the migrants into Britain.

But the 1,500-strong mob was outnumbered by security forces who guarded the ferry port and the tunnel entrance.

Weapons including machetes, clubs and metal poles were found in raids on the protesters’ camp outside the town centre.

An onlooker said: “The anarchists came to help the migrants on their way to England.”


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