Italian border police are looking for a truck driver who is shown on a widely circulated video whipping female migrants after he found them in the back of his truck near the French border, officials said Wednesday.
Smugglers loaded the 12 Eritrean women on the truck at a rest stop near the French border on Monday while the trucker was having lunch, according to authorities. The women allegedly paid 100-150 euros ($110-1$65) to be transported across the border, but authorities believe the truck driver was unaware of their presence.
Once closed inside the truck, the women apparently started agitating due to the heat, with outdoor temperatures over 30 degrees C (86 F), drawing the driver’s attention, city officials said.
The video made by a witness — who asked not to be identified — shows the man striking at the woman with the hardware end of a cargo strap as they descended one by one. At one point, one of the women stood firm, shielding others so they could pass without being struck. The last woman to exit tried to grab the strap from him.
You’re using the traditional gaslighting technique of mixing refugees with economic immigrants.
The former need help and we have a moral obligation to help if we can, the latter are just people driven by personal upside maximization, and we have zero moral obligation of helping people who are simply greedy types who were unlucky with the country they were born in.
Personally I think Europe should activelly be going to the places were those who need the most help are (such as refugee camps) to help them and bring them over if they want, whilst cracking down hard on anybody who is trying to illegally enter Europe - as we can only help some people, not all (many if not most of the 8 billion people in the World are poorer than the average European), we should maximize the pain-reduction of giving the help we can give by focusing on helping the worse off first, not the ones with the strength and the money to illegally cross into Europe.