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Kurds build factories, new roads
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Kurdish
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Dead
migrant was Kurdish trafficker
AFP
June 6, 2002
The
man shot dead Wednesday evening during a fight near the French port of
Calais was a Kurd who worked for a people-smuggling network across the
English channel, police said Thursday.
The
victim was shot in the head during a fight which involved around 40 people
in an industrial zone near the Calais ferry terminal. Police found several
knives and a tear-gas grenade at the scene.
The death is the second resulting from clashes between migrants based at the Sangatte Red Cross centre near the entrance to the Channel tunnel. In April a Kurdish man was fatally stabbed at the camp.
Around 1,500 people -- mainly Kurds and Afghans -- are based at the centre, which they use as a staging-post in their attempts to cross to England.
Officials
there have said that tensions are worsening, but though the French government
has said that closing Sangatte is an "objective" there are no immediate
plans to do so.
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