A man in England tried to set fire to an immigration office and then committed suicide on Sunday.
According to British media reports citing eyewitness accounts, the incident took place in the port city of Dover in southeastern England, where the man threw three Molotov cocktails at the building of the local immigration center. According to the report of the BBC public service media company, the firefighters extinguished the small fire in the building in a short time. The attacker arrived at the scene in a car, and after throwing home-made incendiary devices at the building, drove to a nearby gas station, where he committed suicide. The spokesperson of the British Ministry of the Interior announced on Sunday afternoon: the ministry was informed of the incident, to which the police had already been dispatched. However, according to the spokesperson, it would not be appropriate to publish further statements on the matter for the time being. Tens of thousands of people try to cross the English Channel illegally from the continent to Britain every year, mostly in groups organized by people smugglers, who set off in dinghies.
Last November, 31 people, including five women and a child, drowned when trying to cross the Strait of Dover from France to England in a dinghy that sank during the attempt. The British government then began preparing new, strict laws to curb illegal immigration. Based on this, the captains of the ships with which people smugglers transport people trying to enter Britain illegally from the European continent to British shores will be sentenced to life in prison, and those who enter British territory illegally from Europe cannot officially apply for asylum. London justifies this by saying that those who crossed British borders illegally reached Great Britain by passing through safe countries and should have applied for asylum in these countries.
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