Authorities have described “escalating violence” in the transit city of Calais, France, following two days of fighting when over 100 Eritrean and Ethiopian migrants clashed, attacking one another with stones and sticks leaving over a dozen hospitalised.
Contents: France struggles with hundreds of migrants returning to Calais campground; Italy begs for help after 12,000 migrants arrive in four days
Long-haul drivers being terrorised by migrants seeking passage to Britain are being hit by 10 fines a day for failing to thwart stowaways.
PARIS (AP) — France’s interior minister said ruled out creating a help center for migrants in the increasingly tense port city of Calais, and said that the death of a truck driver blamed on migrants is also a humanitarian issue.
Transport associations in Britain have called on the French government to take “urgent action” to protect drivers from migrants after a man was killed Tuesday morning on the A16 motorway near Calais.
A van driver has died in an accident at Calais after migrants dragged tree trunks onto the A16 motorway in a bid to slow traffic and break into vehicles bound for Britain.
British truck drivers have asked for more protection around Calais after the first serious attacks by migrants since the notorious ‘Jungle’ camp was torn down six months ago.
The political establishment prepared detailed plans to “protect the republic” if Marine Le Pen won the French presidency. “It was a multi-stage rocket. The philosophy, and the imperative priority, was to maintain civil peace,” a senior government official told L’Obs.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has requested that Grammy Award-winning singer Rihanna donate her fur coats to benefit Syrian refugees.
A so-called “anti-fascist” (antifa) activist described as “a gentle, non-violent person” by compatriots has been given a one-year prison sentence for throwing missiles and attacking police lines during a riot.
The northern French city of Calais, formerly a hub for textiles like lace, has been decimated by globalisation. Now, many voters are turning to anti-mass migration French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen to restore jobs to the city.
Successful deportations of bogus asylum seekers have fallen to an all-time low, according to reports, as think tank Migration Watch UK estimates an illegal migrant population in excess of 1.1 million.
Migrants are returning to the northern French town of Calais just months after its infamous camp was demolished and thousands of residents moved elsewhere.
Contents: Migrant camp in northern France housing 1,600 people burnt to the ground; The Le Touquet treaty, which moves Britain’s border into France, will be reconsidered
French presidential frontrunner Marine Le Pen has denounced threats by Emmanuel Macron and others to get rid of British border checks in Calais, calling for strong French borders instead.
Three months after the notorious ‘Jungle’ Calais migrant camp was cleared, there has been a huge surge in the number of migrants gathering in the area in the hope of illegally entering the UK.
The Mayor of Calais has banned food distribution to migrants in the city in a bid to prevent yet another ‘Jungle’ migrant camp from springing up.
PARIS (AP) — Aid groups feeding migrants in the northern French port city of Calais are defying a municipal order to stop.
Home Secretary Amber Rudd has revealed that Britain took in 8,000 ‘unaccompanied minors’ last year, and blasted outrage over the Dubs scheme closure as having been fueled by “fake news”.
Around a hundred UK-bound Eritrean and Sudanese migrants have engaged in a territorial brawl near a service station in northern France.
Activists from the Secours Catholique/Caritas France agency have opened an aid centre for Britain-bound migrants returning to Calais, angering local officials.
Home Office figures show the UK Border Force intercepted 200 illegal migrants every day in the month prior to Britain’s referendum on leaving the European Union (EU), and MPs admit this number is just “the tip of the iceberg”.
The UK government will not accept any more migrants claiming to be children under the so-called Dubs Amendment after March 2017.
Despite the French government’s attempts to dismantle the notorious Calais Jungle migrant camp, many migrants are returning to the area by the day with the aim of getting to the UK.
A migrant camp in the French city of Dunkirk has stated populist Front National presidential candidate Marine Le Pen is not welcome in the camp because “humanity is a value she ignores”.
With weather conditions worsening, criminal people-smuggling gangs are offering to help illegal migrants reach the UK for as little as £112, reports the Daily Express.
Dozens of migrants from the now-demolished Calais camp are taking legal action against the British government for refusing to allow them into the UK. The 36 migrants, who all claim to be teenagers, are being helped by Duncan Lewis Solicitors
Hundreds of migrants and refugees are trickling back across France to reform camps around Calais, in a renewed bid to make it to the UK. Six informal camps, each housing hundreds of migrants with dozens more arriving each week, have
Britain faced criticism Wednesday over strict criteria for children hoping to reach the UK after being evicted from France’s “Jungle” migrant camp, with one prominent politician arguing London has broken its promise.
Up to 400 more child migrants will come to Britain from the demolished Calais ‘Jungle’ camp over the next few weeks, the government has admitted.
PARIS (AP) — Police and city officials are clearing out hundreds of migrants camped out on sidewalks in northern Paris in a camp that recently grew into a new challenge for the French government.
(REUTERS) – French authorities prepared on Thursday to dismantle a makeshift migrant camp in central Paris, its numbers swelled by refugees from a larger settlement in Calais that was meanwhile shut down for good.
Queens Park Rangers (QPR) football club is set to bring 1,000 alleged “child migrants” from France to the UK.
Around 1,500 unaccompanied minors living near the demolished “Jungle” migrant camp in Calais will be moved to reception centres around France starting on Wednesday, authorities said.
Migrant slums on the streets of Paris are growing following the decision to close the Calais ‘jungle’ camp, forcing authorities to start clearing the areas.
(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.
Despite the clean, safe, accommodation on offer for them across France, migrants moved from the Calais “jungle” say they are more determined than ever to reach the UK. France’s refusal to grant them large city dwellings, and the desire to
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.
