Migrants are climbing into trucks headed to England from Calais, France. Truck drivers from the Eindhoven transport company, Scherpenhuizen, complained so much to Transport Manager Piet Daniels, that he decided to see for himself. Last week he made the trip over the sea, and saw what the problems were.
Piet Daniels
"Around half past ten we had to wait for about four to five hours for the train. We had just stopped when migrants came towards us from all directions and tried to break into the trucks. Many were successful," says Daniels from England. The trucks have to wait in a line six kilometers long until they can board the train. That is when the migrants emerge.
How many migrants?
Daniel does not know how many migrants were trying to cross over. "Last night, two-thousand migrants were pulled from the trucks by the police. This increases the waiting time," says the transport operator. Last week a video appeared online of the trucks being broken into by migrants (click on this link to see the video film on Facebook and the website Geenstijl.nl). The film was made by Remon van Es, a truck driver for Scherpenhuizen.
Police
"Fortunately, they were not in our trucks last night. But I have seen cases of guys that drive their own trucks full of flowers that get destroyed by the migrants," says Daniels.
"The police don't do anything. The trucks are cut open and the load is thrown into a ditch so that more migrants can fit in. The police can't do anything about it. There are too many of them," says Daniels.
Fear
"The police don't do anything. The trucks are cut open and the load is thrown into a ditch so that more migrants can fit in. The police can't do anything about it. There are too many of them," says Daniels.
Fear
"After the migrants are removed from the trucks they are brought back to the tent camps that are three kilometers away. Within half an hour they are back at the crossing," says Daniels, who also does not have a solution. "I don't know what the solution is. There are so many of them and so few police."
"It is a scary feeling. I have truck drivers that don't want to drive to England anymore because they are really scared. I understand them, because I saw it myself last night," says Daniels.
Understanding
"It is a scary feeling. I have truck drivers that don't want to drive to England anymore because they are really scared. I understand them, because I saw it myself last night," says Daniels.
Understanding
The Transport Manager understand the migrants. "I get it, the migrants want to move on, but the transport costs so much money," says Daniels.
Source: Omroep Brabant
Source: Omroep Brabant