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Updated | Commotion at Safi detention centre
Furniture damaged when a protest broke out at the Safi detention centre at around 3:20am.
20 September 2013, 12:00am
Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
1 min read
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A detention service officer was slighly injured when migrants at the Safi detention centre damaged a fence and broke furniture during a protest which broke out in the early hours of the morning.
It is not clear what instigated the protest, but inewsmalta.com reports it could be tied to the refugee status to be granted to a number of Eritreans. The same newspaper reports 29 migrants were involved in the commotion.
The migrants also tried to demolish a perimeter fence but were stopped by members of the Detention Services before they could escape. According to a government statement, a small group of irregular immigrants dislodged a number of stone slabs from a wall of their accommodation block.
"This activity was noted by an alert detention service officer who immediately raised the alarm and called for the assistance of his colleagues. The group of immigrants responded by throwing back broken stones, hot water and other objects at their disposal," the government said.
Members of the Armed Forces of Malta and the Police Corps were called in to assist the detention services officers.
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Why aren't these people asleep like everybody else at 3:AM? These are ungrateful illegal immigrants who after the AFM risked their lives to save them and bring them to Malta they want to harm us, which is their main purpose in the first place. And unless they were boiling water to make some tea or coffee they had the boiling water ready just in case somebody interrupted their escape. These illegal immigrants are not here seeking refuge, they are here for a purpose and that is to take over our livelihood and our freedom. Where were the JST and the NGO's at that time of the early morning? Identify these ingrates and send them back where they came from, pronto. Good job by the guard.
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Soluzzjoni wahda ghal din il kwalita ta nies.Jintbatu lura minn fejn gew u jekk xi hadd mill Ewropa joggezjona nistaqsuhx jekk iridhumxomx huma u nibghatuhomlom.
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Send all these ungrateful trouble makers back now, we have had enough of them!
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Go and rebuild your respective countries, you........, and not ruin ours. Shame on NGO's, UNHCR and JRS.
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Send them all back Ethiopia is safe and has no problems. In fact, their national air carrier is operating normally and one of their aircraft made an emergency landing in Malta which proves that it is a safe country. http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130920/local/ethiopian-airlines-plane-diverts-to-malta-after-engine-failure.486961 Ethiopian Airlines plane diverts to Malta after engine failure When are the authorities going to take the bull by the hor and send them all back?
