Danny Tommo is in a cell and the dinghy passengers are in hotels. We're heading to England to find out why
With Danny Tommo denied bail and Britons rallying for the rape gang victims the establishment ignored for decades, Rebel News is on the way to London and Portsmouth to hear the side of the story the British press won't tell.
Britain's governments have promised for years to control the border, but the illegal migrant boats keep crossing the English Channel anyway. This week one man decided to confront them. Danny Tommo went out onto the Channel and took on a migrant dinghy. He has since been charged, denied bail and put in a cell, while the people on that dinghy get hotel rooms and lawyers paid for by British taxpayers.
It's happening in a country still reckoning with the rape gangs, and with the girls the establishment ignored for decades while officials who should have protected them looked away. This Saturday, Britons will gather at Trafalgar Square in London to rally for those victims.
That's why I'm on my way to England. It's a short trip, but I have a lot to cover over the next few days. I'll be at Trafalgar Square on Saturday, and on Tuesday I'll be in Portsmouth for Danny's next court date, reporting on what happens inside that courtroom and outside it. Rebel News is helping to crowdfund his legal fees, because a man facing a charge this serious deserves a proper defence, whatever you think of what he did on the water.
The British press has already decided how both of these stories end. I'm going to tell the other side. I'll be asking people on the ground to tell me, in their own words, what the boats and the rape gangs have done to their communities. Those are the voices the BBC rarely puts on air.
You'll be able to follow all of it at MigrantReports.co.uk, and you'll be the first to know how Danny's case turns out.
Trips like this aren't cheap. Unlike the BBC or CBC, we don't get a government cheque, and our supporters pay for every one of them. If you want to help me get these people's message out while I'm in the UK, please go to MigrantReports.co.uk.
Alexandra Lavoie
Quebec based Journalist
Alexa graduated with a degree in biology from Laval University. Throughout her many travels, she has seen political instability as well as corruption. While she witnessed social disorder on a daily basis, she has always been a defender of society’s most vulnerable. She’s been around the world several times, and now joins Rebel News to shed light on today’s biggest stories.
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