Calais ‘Jungle’ - Page 2

(REUTERS) – The number of migrants sleeping rough on the streets of Paris has risen by at least a third since the start of the week when the “Jungle” shanty town in Calais was evacuated, officials said on Friday.

President Francois Hollande on Saturday hailed this week’s evacuation of the squalid Calais “Jungle” as a success as he vowed France would not accept the emergence of any more makeshift migrant camps.

France has demanded that Britain take in nearly 1,500 “child migrants” staying in Calais, who councils say will cost taxpayers £133,000 per head. The diplomatic row that has broken out over the fate of the alleged minors comes after a

A new scent is in the air in Calais called “apres-Jungle”, but it is not an exotic aftershave.

Pop singer Lily Allen has claimed a taxi driver “discriminated” against her because of her pro mass-migration views.

Five days into a French operation to clear the Calais “Jungle” France has lashed out at apparent British criticism of the way children are being treated while thousands of migrants are resettled across France and the camp is destroyed.

As the bulldozers clear the remaining shacks at the “Jungle” camp, the thousands of migrants moved out to shelters around France are facing an uncertain welcome from their new hosts.

A young woman was gang-raped by five men amid the destruction of the Calais Jungle camp, French prosecutors have revealed.

A left-wing activist leading protests in Calais is a self-described “freelance troublemaker” who promised this week to “organise riots” in the Jungle camp and once said Islamic State attacks in Europe were good for migrants.

“There are so many people (in Calais), so many boys. When you walk down the road they will talk to you and we hear they are raping some girls,” Magda, 24, who arrived in Calais from Ethiopian told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

In one of the tents due to be demolished in the windswept Calais “Jungle” camp in northern France, the migrants who once lived there had left behind several loaves of bread and a milk carton.

A Labour shadow minister has reacted furiously after discovering a joke poster lampooning the age of so-called ‘child migrants’ in a communal kitchen in Westminster.

The number of ‘child’ migrants the UK is expected to take in the next 3 weeks, thanks to a new loophole in immigration law, has shot up from 450 to 650, with 200 having already arrived in the past week.

France began clearing the sprawling “Jungle” camp on Monday as many migrants who have camped for months or years among sand dunes near Calais gave up on their dreams of reaching Britain, a tantalisingly short sea crossing away.

The residents of a small town in Devon have spoken out against the “bizarre” decision to home up to 70 so-called “child migrants” from Calais in their community; a decision they say was made without consulting anyone locally.

Protesters gathered outside the Home Office in London Monday calling for the British government to take more child migrants. Earlier in the day, officials announced the transfer of underage migrants from the notorious Calais ‘Jungle’ camp was paused while the

British anarchists and open borders activists have promised to “fight the police” in Calais this week to stop them demolishing the illegal Jungle migrant camp.

On the eve of the demolition of the Calais “Jungle” camp, French officials on Sunday handed out flyers informing migrants of the camp’s imminent closure and urging them to abandon their dreams of reaching Britain.

CALAIS (Reuters) – France will start removing migrants on Monday from a squalid north-coast camp known as the Jungle and expects to dismantle it in the space of a week, an interior ministry official said on Friday. The ramshackle camp

The entrance to the immigration centre welcoming busloads of ‘child’ migrants every day from Calais has been obscured by a 15ft high scaffolding and canvas fence, hiding the identities of new arrivals.

UK Independence Party leadership candidate Raheem Kassam spoke to radio host Jon Gaunt Thursday about the alleged “underage” migrants from Calais who turned out to be adults, and demanded full medical and dental checks for those migrants entering Britain claiming to be children.

Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn has slammed the government for not bringing more child migrants from Calais, including those who have no ties to the UK, and has called on the Home Office to speed up the process. But local council leaders have complained that they are being landed with huge bills as they are financially responsible for unaccompanied migrants.

(AFP) – France’s former prime minister and presidential hopeful Alain Juppe has called for the UK border to be shifted across the Channel from Calais, in an interview published on Thursday. Juppe, who is campaigning to be the right-wing candidate

Immigration officials placed blankets over the heads of ‘child refugees’ arriving in the UK today, after photos of new arrivals sparked a row over the true age of migrants earlier this week.

Around two-thirds of the ‘child’ migrants screened by Home Office officials when their ages were called into question have been found to be adults, figures reveal.

A translator and journalist of Afghan origin making a film about child sexual abuse in the Calais migrant camp has been robbed and raped at knifepoint by three migrants.

Concerns have been raised that adult migrants are posing as children to gain entry to the UK, as it has emerged that the Home Office has no way of verifying the ages of child migrants being relocated from the Calais Jungle.

The UK began accepting migrant youths from Calais on Monday after campaigners and a former archbishop lobbied local authorities to take advantage of a new loophole in immigration law.

The mayor of a French town has placed posters around his town warning locals that the state plans to “impose” migrants on them. He has called for a referendum on whether to accept migrants from the Jungle camp outside Calais

British volunteers travelling to Calais with donations for migrants have been turned back at the border, over concerns that they may be whipping up civil unrest in the region.

The total dismantling of the “Jungle” migrant camp in northern France will begin soon, a French minister said in comments published Friday.

A man of Jewish descent is demanding an apology after pop singer Lily Allen labelled him a “Nazi” for not supporting mass migration and told him to be “twice as ashamed” because he is Jewish.

The Eritrean migrant killed on the road near Calais on the weekend was attacking the car that hit him, and may have been holding a weapon, it has emerged.

CALAIS, France (Reuters) – In thick fog, Nasir helped load his young family’s scant possessions into a van and turned his back on the beaten-up caravan that has been home for the past nine months in a migrant camp known

British singer Lily Allen has apologised “on behalf of my country” to an Afghan teenager while visiting the notorious Calais ‘Jungle’ migrant camp in northern France. The singer, who spoke to the 13-year-old boy while filming for the BBC’s Victoria

A husband and wife from Kent have warned others not to travel through Calais after their car was recently set upon by around 40 migrants wearing hoodies and with their faces covered.