It appears that 90 illegal immigrants being held in detention in Floriana managed to stage a "mass escape" that was well timed for the visit of EU MPs currently touring detention centres. As we try to see the comic in the tragic (not much left to laugh about) we find this piece in the Times particularly notable for its tragi-comic content:
"All officers available at the time were immediately mobilised and the immigrants were apprehended in Floriana, Sa Maison, Portes des Bombes and the Valletta Waterfront, among other places. Five others were intercepted at the former opera house site.
The escape caused a lot of commotion among passers-by, with some individuals heard calling out for the immigrants to be "burned in the square". Others said the migrants should be grateful they were being hosted in Malta in the first place.
The police were evidently overwhelmed by the mass escape, and at one point they were seen stopping black pedestrians who, as it turned out, had nothing to do with the escape."
Malta? Racist? Qed tifhem?
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