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General Category => World News => Topic started by: TomSea on January 18, 2018, 02:55:04 pm
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Snow may hide dead migrants on Alps route
By Saskya Vandoorne and Melissa Bell, CNN
Updated 8:22 AM ET, Thu January 18, 2018
Col de l'Échelle mountain pass, France (CNN)Mountain guides in the Italian Alps are warning that when the snow melts there this spring they may find bodies of migrants who have been attempting to make the treacherous land crossing from Italy into France.
The tightening of border controls between France and Italy in recent years has prompted some migrants -- often teenagers -- to abandon coastal routes, in favor of a perilous two-kilometer trek through the southern Alps, the same slopes visited by skiers enjoying winter vacations.
Up to 70 mostly African migrants each week are crossing the Col de l'Échelle mountain pass on their trek northward into Europe, having already traveled through Libya and across the Mediterranean. Guides say it is as yet unclear how many have died while trying to make the trip.
Read more at: http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/18/europe/alps-migrants-border-crossing-intl/index.html (http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/18/europe/alps-migrants-border-crossing-intl/index.html)
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Sounds like they need a fence there, too.
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Sounds like they need a fence there, too.
Nah. Just more snow.
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(https://memegenerator.net/img/instances/68115862/thats-a-shame.jpg)
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Sounds like they need a fence there, too.
And more of these bad boys
(https://static01.nyt.com/images/2009/03/19/us/19alta-600.jpg)
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a perilous two-kilometer trek through the southern Alps
That's not a very long "trek."
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That's not a very long "trek."
It's all up hill. In the snow. Both ways....with no shoes on.
Oh wait. That was my walk to school. Sorry.