Two British far-right activists arrested in France (www.theguardian.com)
from xc2215x@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 27 Jan 11:52
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tal@lemmy.today on 27 Jan 12:07 next collapse

An order had been issued on Friday prohibiting British activists from gathering for a planned “stop the boats” protest nicknamed Operation Overlord in the departments of Nord and Pas-de-Calais.

They named a protest aimed at stopping boats from crossing the English Channel…after what was probably the largest crossing of boats across the English Channel ever?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Overlord

Operation Overlord was the codename for the Battle of Normandy, the Allied operation that launched the successful liberation of German-occupied Western Europe during World War II. The operation was launched on 6 June 1944 (D-Day) with the Normandy landings (Operation Neptune). A 1,200-plane airborne assault preceded an amphibious assault involving more than 5,000 vessels. Nearly 160,000 troops crossed the English Channel on 6 June, and more than two million Allied troops were in France by the end of August.

9point6@lemmy.world on 27 Jan 12:40 next collapse

Reminder that zero “small boats” have come across in several days

This is a non issue used to keep idiots angry about people who have nothing to do with the people who are actually destroying their lives: the same people funding all this bile.

Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk on 27 Jan 17:15 collapse

How ironic that they became the foreign criminals they are trying to stop…