A crane was deployed to the site to lift four-meter-high cement panels to prevent migrants from blocking traffic and jumping onto trucks.Ĭalais Mayor Natacha Bouchart has been opposing the move, saying there was no reason for the wall separating the camp now that the government has decided to destroy it, AP reported. On Saturday, workers started erecting a controversial wall along the motorway leading to the ferry terminal. It currently houses between 7,000 and 10,000 people, most of whom are seeking a way to get to the UK to claim asylum there. Tensions around the notorious ‘Jungle’ remain high, with French authorities preparing to “ completely dismantle” the camp. ACT TOGETHER brexit - key of imagination - european commission. It’s been updated, and the new version (linked below) in now available on the page Resources on this blog (The Calais Migrant Solidarity Blog). At the makeshift camps outside Calais, migrants are digging in, waiting for the chance to make a dash. Originally published by Calais Migrant Solidarity.
Police had to use tear gas grenades to disperse the mob invading the motorway. A migrants makeshift camp is set up in Calais, northern France, Saturday, Nov. Unlike the others, this refuge far from Calais’ city center and more than a two-hour walk to the Channel tunnel has mushroomed into a veritable village.
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On Thursday, police clashed with a crowd of some 200 migrants who reportedly tried to board trucks and other vehicles heading to Britain through the Calais ferry terminal. Britons on alert after migrant mob attack driver with a brick BRITISH drivers were last night warned not to stop their vehicles near the port of Calais after a gang of migrants hijacked a lorry. An estimated 2,500 migrants are currently at the wind-swept camp surrounded by sand dunes that sprang up in early April when a state-approved day center for migrants was opened nearby. Such incidents have not been uncommon in Calais lately. The Help Refugees agency said the final population ahead of. Read more Calais police deploy tear gas to stop migrant motorway invasion (VIDEO) The Jungle camp is near the port of Calais and close to the 31-mile Channel Tunnel Officially about 7,000 migrants live in the camp.