The Met police have taken over the search for the missing asylums seeker. Main plan seems to be to read out a statement on tv telling him to give himself up. I don't think the kids miss out much around here, quite a few kids football teams always after players on Facebook. Youth club just down the road from me, been there even when I was a kid. Playing field just 300 yards from my house, 500 acre park less than a mile away. And what do the wrong uns do,, hang around the town in gangs causing fights and upsetting shoppers. Some people won't even go into the town even in daylight. In the park they ride illegal and stolen motor bikes and do their best to burn down the wooded areas in the summer. They have choices but there are a few that just run wild with no consequences. Just to add, there's something really strange happened, all activities now have to be supervised and organised. Even the grandparents seem to totally stop all their normal activities when looking after the grandkids.
If the asylum seeker had been deported he would probably of been straight back on a boat in a few weeks anyway .
Yeah, long walk back from Ethiopia. I think he still can't work out what he did wrong. What happened is just part of multicultural Britain, different values and customs.
There are rapists and woman haters in every community. When I went to Ethiopia many years ago I was impressed by how “Christian” they were in their social values. Respect for others was a key part of their everyday life and women were definitely not “kept in their place” as they are in some cultures. No, he’s just a horrible man, that’s all.
I was in in Ethiopia about 10 years ago and I found very similar to you @Tidemark. There was also a big religous festival while we were there absolutely massive crowds around the celebration site. What I would say is that Ethiopia is a large country with a number of ethnic groups, the area I was in was Amhara and the Simian Mountains so very Christian. However in the south of Ethiopia there are groups who are 50:50 Christian Muslim and further South there are tribes that still hold to their traditional beliefs. The Amhara are very much the ruling group and there are tensions between them and other groups because of this.
Just interested in where you saw Gloucester mentioned. Everything I've seen refers to him being in the London area. That prison officer will probably be made the scapegoat by the prison governor.
The worrying thing is that a witness said that he actually tried to tell the prison guards it was a mistake, 4-5 times over a period of about one and a half hours, where he was simply waiting outside, before they told him to sod of. It was reported he wanted to go back to Ethiopia as well, so the incompetence is off the scale with this one.
I rather think that having been convicted of a crime he'll be deported back to his country and not just to France. Good news that he's been caught. I fear that many Muslims are taught their religion by Imams with little learning or knowledge of the Koran themselves. They learn bits by rote and ignore all the stuff about respect and care for all living creatures including women, donkeys and dogs. I don't understand how any boy or man who loves his mum and sisters can condone the restraints and ill treatment meted out to so many of their women and girls.
@NigelJ Yes it was Chelmsford. Early hours of the morning when I was listening to the radio so perhaps it followed an item about something in Gloucester and I got muddled up. Need a new brain I'm afraid.
So ... the French authorities think the Louvre burglars had inside help. Even Inspector Clouseau would have managed that deduction!
Oh heavens @pete not all grandparents are like that. My grandchildren know when they're here for a visit that I am not organizing their day. Maybe arrange an activity per day like going shopping or visiting someone/somewhere because they are visiting to spend time with me. Just the way I would treat any other visitor. Now, if I'm "minding" them, no. They can entertain themselves! When they were toddlers, I didn't spend every waking hour with them. Now they are older, they more or less, get on with their own life, I've got mine I do notice that lots of kids seem to have their whole day planned but these parents will find out the damage years from now.
