A man in a white car hurled three petrol bombs at Dover immigration centre before driving to petrol station to ‘kill himself’.
The strange incident happened yesterday, Sunday 30th October when the white man wearing a checked shirt, drove up to the centre in a white SEAT sports utility vehicle. He threw three petrol bombs with fireworks at the immigration centre, one of which failed to go off.
He then drove to a to nearby petrol station to ‘kill himself’ with a makeshift noose. Army bomb squad experts were brought it to inspect the car over fears of more explosives inside. A further device was found and confirmed safe within the suspect’s vehicle.
Police cordoned off a BP petrol station on the A20 opposite the Home Office immigration centre, formerly known as Tug Haven. Officers were seen standing by a white 69-plate SEAT SUV – believed to have been driven by the suspect.
Kent Police confirmed that the suspect died, with the force finding them at a nearby petrol station. A spokesperson added that two people from inside the immigration premises have reported ‘minor injuries’.
The incident came after almost 1,000 migrants arrived in the UK after crossing the Channel on Saturday, in what has become an unstoppable tidal wave of people.
Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick will visit both Dover and Manston this week over concerns about tensions and overcrowding at the immigration centres.
Dover MP Natalie Elphicke said that she warned the Immigration Minister this week about rising tensions around migration after an incident last Sunday. Apparently Kent Police stated they were called to The Viaduct, where ‘two to three incendiary devices’ had caused a fire.
The DOVER site remained open, however around 700 suspected migrants were relocated to Manston
Kent Fire and Rescue Service confirmed its crews had put out fires. Nathalie Elphicke, the Conservative MP for Dover, said she was ‘deeply shocked’, but has yet to do anything about it.
It comes after an immigration watchdog said he was left ‘speechless’ by conditions at the Manston migrant processing centre in Kent, and warned the site has already passed the point of being unsafe.
Earlier this month, the Manston site reported an outbreak of diptheria among its population of 3,000. Managers at Manston stated that a ‘small number’ of cases were being treated.
