I promise you, this story is not just about me, although I happen to be in the middle of it.
It raises some really serious issues about our borders, about some of the people who are coming into our country illegally, and about the fact that if they come from certain original destinations, we simply can't get rid of them.
You may remember a couple of weeks back, I talked about the case of a guy called Mada Pasa, and he got in trouble.
He was arrested in Malmo for carrying a knife. He fled the country and decided on Tiktok he’d chart his journey to England, via Germany, via Calais.
Nigel Farage shared his views on the migrant who threatened him
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I posted some of this to say, ‘Do we really want people like this?’ This was Mada Pasa’s response to me two weeks ago: "English man, don't talk about me. You not know me. I come to England because I want marriage with your sister.
"Don't talk about me more. I gonna come to England. I gonna [gunshot noises]’"
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Well, I think it's pretty clear what Mada Pasa meant. Now, since then, we've been trying to work out where he is.
He posted a picture of a Waitrose in Bournemouth, but without him in it. But it's pretty clear he didn't manage to cross the Channel. There were a couple of aborted attempts.
But this morning, at about 7.30am this video was taken. That is not a fake. That is a genuine video of him in a migrant boat with 50 or 60 other people. And you could see at the beginning of that shot, the French naval vessel.
Yes, that's right, the French Navy this morning have been escorting somebody across to our 12-mile line who threatened to kill a British member of parliament.
A stock image of migrants crossing the ChannelPAAfter the £500million we paid them, you would have thought they might just be able to do better than that.
I've asked the Home Office, the police, is it true that he's arrived?
Have you taken him into custody? Is he being questioned? I haven't even had the courtesy of an answer from the Home Office.
I guess my real concern is unless he has been taken away and put behind a locked door, he will simply abscond.
'He will cost us a huge amount of money'
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But here's the worst part, because originally he came from Afghanistan, we will not send him back to Afghanistan, because we don't deem that to be a safe country.
Even though Germany is now sending planes back to Afghanistan.
It could be if he has permanently left to remain in Sweden that they'll take him. I don't know.
I'm struck that he's here. He'll be here for a very long time, and possibly cost us a huge amount of money.
