Rich Europe’s illegal immigration policy is foundering on hypocrisy

Europe can’t build a wall and hide behind it, stuffing itself with riches... and get away with it, writes Victoria White

ANSLAUGHTER, shipwreck and the promotion of illegal immigration… These are the charges against Tunisian Captain Mohammed Ali Malek and Syrian ship’s mate, Syrian Mahmud Bikhit, who were skippering the fishing vessel that sank on Sunday, drowning 800 to 900 people.

The few survivors’ stories are like a classic nightmare. The lower levels of the ship were locked and that’s where the children were. At least 100 of them drowned in their own hideous death chamber. Save the Children reckons, from survivors’ stories, that 60 of those children were unaccompanied minors.