UK couple fined £1,500 after reporting Channel stowaway found in motorhome

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• StarlightDust@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If you see someone trying to do this - you didn’t.

  You will never be rewarded for selling out other humans but they will almost certainly be punished.

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• florge@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So the border police claim to have found the stowaway and then went ‘that’s not my problem’?

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  • ladfrombrad@lemdro.id ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And then “punish” the motorhome owners for negligence. No negligence fines for the Border Force missing then and/or inquiry about straight up lying about finding the stowaway later on?

    lol, you couldn’t make it up. Surely there’s a police report stating that the couple phoned it in and is in black and white.

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    • blackn1ght@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      All this policy will do is encourage people not to report stowaways. Totally bonkers.

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• rah@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Bizarre that the article doesn’t address the reasons why the boy wanted to come to the UK. As per usual.

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  • blackn1ght@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Because that’s not the focus of the article, it’s specifically about the policy of fining people who report stowaways.

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    • rah@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Because that’s not the focus of the article

      They went to the trouble of explaining the age of the boy and where he was from and by your logic those bits of information aren’t the focus of the article either.

      You’re just guessing, you don’t know. We can all make guesses.

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• MrPoletki@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s some major bullshit right there. Utter idiocy issuing them with a fine.

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• Mrkawfee@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Oh no, JD Vance is going to use this in his next speech to promote European fascism.

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• snaprails@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Enquiring minds need to know, was the stowaway called Gary?

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• Stormy1701@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Should have just let him go on his way. Don’t report anything to the police, especially if it involves foreigners as you will likely be the one in the shit.

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