9 Aug, 2017 @ 10:45
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WATCH: Agonising moment Spanish cop breaks thigh bone trying to trip up migrant during border storm

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THIS is the moment a Spanish policeman broke his thigh bone while trying to trip up a migrant. 

His right foot was left facing the wrong way after suffering a double fracture while attempting to kick a migrant to the ground.

CCTV captured the stomach-turning injury at the border crossing between Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in the early hours of Monday morning.

It comes as Spanish cops detained 19 migrants today found hiding in fairground lorries. 

The migrants, all from Morocco or Algeria, were waiting to board ferries to mainland Spain.

Police with thermal imaging equipment and sniffer dogs found them among bumper cars and a ghost train, waiting in Ceuta.

The group included nine children.

Ceuta and Melilla have become magnets for African migrants hoping to reach Spain.

Most are fleeing poverty and violence in sub-Saharan Africa – but many are not from war zones.

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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1 Comment

  1. Refugees? Anyone see any women and children in that mob? And if you expect the border guards to do their jobs as so-called “Law Enforcement”, why no shots fired? Even if in the air to warn them first? Oh I forgot, politically correct European politicians (voted in by the people!) think marauding hordes of uneducated military-age African and Muslim men is good for Europe. I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that the guard who broke his leg is fired for trying to stop them!!

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