African migrants look down on white-clad golfers in viral photo

[pampango]

Realities clash as campaigner captures image of asylum seekers stuck on razorwire fence above elite club on Morocco-Melilla border


A golfer tees off as African migrants sit on top of a fence during an attempt to enter Spanish territories from Morocco.

Behind them lay the makeshift campgrounds where they had spent months living rough, waiting for the right moment to climb the six-metre, razorwire fence lying between them and their dream of making it to Europe. In front of them lay an immaculately groomed golf course complete with white-clad golfers teeing off.

The two radically different realities, just metres apart, was what greeted a dozen or so migrants caught on the triple fence that marks the border between Spain’s north African enclave of Melilla and Morocco on Wednesday. After 200 had tried to scale the fence, Spain’s interior ministry said 20 people had made it to the enclave and another 70 remained perched on top of the fence for several hours.

Each year thousands of Africans – many of whom have spent years travelling across north and sub-Saharan Africa – try to reach Europe by making it past the fortified fence that separates Morocco from the Spanish enclaves of Melilla and Ceuta. Many of them spend months living in makeshift camps on the Moroccan side, waiting for the opportunity to rush the fence.

Several organisations have express concerns in recent days about the actions of Spanish officers at the fence, after Pro.De.In released a http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2009_2014/documents/peti/cm/797/797245/797245en.pdf" target="_blank">video that showed several of them beating a migrant with their batons as he climbed down from the fence. As he fell to the ground, he appeared to be unconscious as officers carried him back to the Moroccan side of the border.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/23/-sp-african-migrants-look-down-on-white-clad-golfers-in-viral-photo

First World meet the Third World. I think you're going to need a bigger fence.

Better yet, fences don't solve problems - perhaps why republicans are big fans of fences. All fences do is to keep 'their' problems from becoming 'my' problems.

[JimDandy]

1. Photo looks off. Golfers in foreground are smaller than

people on the fence in the background. Photoshopped?

[Psephos]

2. photo is fishy

perspective foreshortening is impossible...s/b just the opposite

nothing fishy about the story, though