the run for the castle

It is just like a run for castle walls. Inside the castle, there live the greedy folks. People who do not want to share their wealth with others, who are afraid of the people outside that come with self-made ladders to climb up the walls. But the people inside do not realize that they are living in an old people´s home, a ghetto of ignorance they have chosen...

I am talking about the run for the European Union. Poor people from central African countries who have left their homes and see their only perspective in finding a job in Europe, have made up for a long and hard journey, thousand kilometres through the wide desert. Finally reaching the mediterranean coast, they still have not reached their goal. Taking the ship by night (for not getting caught by the sea police), ships that are so often overcrowded with people and sink easily within storms, is a risky adventure.

The alternative is to climb up the fences (walls) of the Spanish "exclaves" Ceuta or Melilla. And surely the sheer existence of Spanish towns on the moroccan ground is a huge scandal itself! It seems like nobody is asking today, why these towns still belong to a European country. The Spanish had occupied them in the 15th/16th century - and that´s it.. What would the Indian people say, if Pondicherry would still be under French rule (and one must ask further why Gibraltar is still under British rule)?

These days, Melilla is gaining sad fame. Every night hundreds of people run with their ladders towards the fences, trying to get to Europe (although they are still on the African continent). Maybe some of them will make it. Most of them will be send back by the police (and are often treated badly after they have injured themselves because of their falling from the fence).
And what is Spain going to do? Sending more policemen to Melilla and making the fence higher..

After the fall of the Berlin wall, the European people should know that the existence of walls are no solutions, but a part of the whole problem itself. Europe is still repressing its own colonial history!