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by George Igler
• August 20, 2016 at 5:00 am
- In September
2015, a Canadian broadcaster, Ezra Levant, suggested that what
Europe was experiencing, was not primarily an influx of
"refugees" fleeing conflict, but rather a new Gold Rush,
in which young men from the Muslim world were seeking to improve their
fortune at Europe's expense.
- Rome-based
journalist Barbie Latza Nadeu seriously asked whether Italy was
"enabling the ISIS invasion of Europe."
- Profits in the
people-smuggling business often flow to terrorist-backed gangs
operating in Italy. The numbers drowning in the Mediterranean
continue to mount.
African migrants camp out on the beach in the northern
Italian town of Ventimiglia, along the French border, as they wait for
the opportunity to cross into France, in 2015. (Image source: AFP video
screenshot)
Chaotic scenes have erupted on the coastal Mediterranean frontier
between Italy and France. On August 4, for instance, hundreds of
migrants, chiefly from Eritrea, Ethiopia and the Sudan sought to storm
the crossing in their attempts to make it to Northern Europe.
"Both the Italian and French forces at the border were taken by
surprise," remarked Giorgio Marenco, a police commander in
Ventimiglia, where tear gas was used to disperse the migrants. Others
merely braved the choppy waters of the sea to breach the crossing by swimming
towards their goal.
The Italian town contains the last train station in Italy near the
border. The besieged terminus lies three miles from the French Riviera.
It has been a gathering point for the predominantly Muslim migrants since
June 2015. A fractious tent city for migrants has sprung up, mirroring
others spread across Italy. The capital of the French holiday district is
Nice, which experienced a jihadist massacre on July 14.
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