another abduction attempt

[Old Daffodil]

Perhaps the travel company reps could advise holidaymakers that just like England you have to take care when travelling home at night.
When we people are on holiday they are not familiar with an area and probably do things that they would never do in England.

[heather07]

Have to agree Daffodil.  In Egypt and Tunisia you are warned of the threat of terrorism.  So to advise caution late at night may save someone having their holiday ruined.

[Old Daffodil]

There are plenty of taxis in the area only to glad to have business and if you make arrangements to share it can keep the price down. We do that in Britain, why not here.

I have on a number of occasions seen young women alone lost as they cannot find their hotel and wandering down dark country lanes. It would be a good idea if hotels were to have a small area map to show landmarks for their guest to identify where they were. Usually people do not venture that far from their hotel but may just take a wrong turn late at night and lose their bearings.

[Highlander]

Twin Bee your last post doesn't seem to me to demostrate positive thinking. What possible harm can the posting of as much information as possible do.

[laffa]

  I agree too that we should be informed of any other incidents, or developments,  to keep up the momentum on the current problems and as reminder not to let our guard down, remember, we can benefit from the forum, others cant.

[suzi Q]

Yes lets face it a lot of us are going out to Calis soon and need as much info as possible to stop us worrying and so we can also be eyes and ears too while we are there. Information every couple of weeks is useless to us.

[Twin Bee]

Like I said only trying to help using my experience!
The drip,drip of BAD news wears people down and people can feed on it in a way which doesn't help. Sometimes this is done by people 'competing' for who has the worst tale to tell. Sometime people go out on a limb and muddy the waters by involving people/orgasnisations who they think can help but will make things worse. Also what might appear a good outcome for one person may be a bad outcome for another such as informing the tabloid press. And I find it odd that some people post on here about incidents that happened months, even years ago, yet at the time of the incident they refer do not merit posting on CBF at that time. This sounds to me like people jumping on the 'band wagon of despair' when the situation does not merit it.
I am all for posting SIGNIFICANT information but we do not need everyone to report EVERY little concern. After all we don't report EVERY kindness!
I do understand the need to feel secure and worry free but Suzi; I am not sure I agree that every incident being posted reduces worry. I think for some it significantly adds to it - makes peole worry when they do not need to.
I am only trying to help people get a proper perspective on what is happening and promoting the idea that significant incidents should be reported to the Authorities and the Authorites should be trusted to deal with the situation.

[Scunner]

I think the reality will be somewhere between the two. There is a lot of collation and verification work going on behind the scenes (you can thank Tinkerman for this) and hopefully a meeting with the Chief of Police will take place once there is a collection of facts to run through with him.

There have been reports on the forum that simply cannot be verified - this doesn't necessarily mean they didn't happen but there is little fact to back them up enough to take to the Chief. Of course we are in no position to choose whether members report events to CBF, but from our position, only factual and verified information will be posted on here by the CBF team.

[suzi Q]

Bee i totally understand what you are saying about the people feeding off of bad news instead of looking for the positive but from the many posts you can see people are concerned. I'm sorry if it was taken the wrong way but its how a lot of us feel.I want to thank tinx for his involvement behind the scenes and hope that something postive comes out of all this.

[HRH_59]

OMG - how worrying is this.  We are arriving in Calis on 3rd August and will have 2 x 16 year old girls with us you where hoping for a bit of "freedom" away from parents.  Not sure I will be happy with them being out on their own now.