Still in favour of unlimited migration, Mr Clooney? The posturing actor's Italian idyll is awash with migrants as neighbouring nations slam shut their borders - and tensions are rising
- 200 people have set up a camp near George Clooney's home in Lake Como
- The actor has previously been vocal about his pro-migrant views
- Most migrants coming to Lake Como travel in makeshift boats from Libya
Of
all the showbiz luvvies speaking up for the refugees and migrants
arriving in Europe, few have had a louder (or more self-righteous) voice
than George Clooney.
With
his wife Amal, an international human rights lawyer, the Hollywood star
visited Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin early this year to
personally praise her for throwing open the country’s doors to any
Syrian who knocked on it.
As
more than a million migrants from the terror-ravaged Syria (and the
rest of the Middle East, Africa, South Asia and many Balkan States) duly
rushed to answer Mrs Merkel’s call, Clooney gave us an indication of
his thinking. ‘The reality is we, as the world, have to start paying
more attention to these people,’ he proclaimed. ‘They aren’t fleeing to
just come and have fun in Germany, you know, these are people who are
dying.’
This week, not far from their £7.5
million 18th-century Italian villa, with its fabulous view of Lake Como,
200 people had set up a makeshift camp at the local railway station,
from where they hope to be able to slip through the Swiss border, which
is a six-minute train ride up the track
Yet
the sight of migrants in their own very swish back-yard may now come as
a surprise to the Clooneys. This week, not far from their £7.5 million
18th-century Italian villa, with its fabulous view of Lake Como, 200
people had set up a makeshift camp at the local railway station, from
where they hope to be able to slip through the Swiss border, which is a
six-minute train ride up the track.
Like
tens of thousands of others, most of Lake Como’s migrants arrived in
Italy after being rescued from rickety smugglers’ boats crossing the
Mediterranean from Libya. Not that they show any gratitude for the
Italians — they are determined not to stay in the country.
As
Iwu Collins, 24, from Nigeria explained at the station as he sat
forlornly on the platform: ‘I have been in Italy for seven months and
living in a migrants’ hostel not far from here. Italy has not been good
to me.
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