09/07/2009 (Agence Europe) - British National Party leader Nick Griffin told the BBC on Wednesday 8 July that “the only measure, sooner or later, which is going to stop immigration and stop large numbers of sub-Saharn Africans dying on the way to get over here is to get very tough with those coming over. Frankly, they need to sink several of those boats”. He went on to explain: “I didn't say anyone should be murdered at sea - I say boats should be sunk, they can throw them a life raft and they can go back to Libya”. If the British MEP is to be believed, Europe's survival is at stake. He said: “Europe has sooner or later to close its borders or it is simply going to be swamped by the Third World”. (B.C./transl.jl)