The total closure and dismantling of the Calais Jungle migrant camp hasn’t dissuaded new migrants from arriving there, and French authorities don’t know what to do with them. The Calais Jungle has largely disappeared thanks to the efforts of the
Pop singer Lily Allen has claimed a taxi driver “discriminated” against her because of her pro mass-migration views.
Contents: Thousands of refugees hide from French police as Calais ‘Jungle’ refugee camp is demolished; Destruction of Calais camp called ‘really dangerous’ for children
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.
People who express scepticism over the age of supposed “child migrants” entering the UK are like Hitler and the Nazis, Lily Allen has said.
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.
Fires continue to rage across the Jungle migrant camp in Calais today as the French authorities sent in bulldozers to clear the ‘jungle’ shantytown. Last night fire crews were pelted with stones and debris as they tried to help 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.
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.
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.
Contents: France to demolish ‘The Jungle’ migrant camp in Calais; Italy struggles with the ‘mini-Calais’ refugee camp in Ventimiglia
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.
(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.
A British television crew has been attacked by a gang of migrants in Calais during filming, with over 20 individuals using sticks, stones, and knives to repel the men.
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.
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.
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
A British driver who turned himself into the police after running over and killing an Eritrean migrant near Calais may face prosecution for accidental manslaughter, the local French prosecutor has confirmed.
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.
(REUTERS) – A migrant from Eritrea died on Sunday after being hit by a car on the A16 road near the French port city of Calais, where thousands of people from the Middle East and Africa are camped trying to reach Britain, police said.
PARIS (Reuters) – Britain should take in all children living in the crowded “Jungle” refugee camp in Calais who have family links to the UK, French interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve said on Monday. “I solemnly ask Britain to live up
PIERREFEU, France (AP) — French villagers are protesting the arrival of migrants who are being dispersed around the country as the government shuts down the slum-like camp in Calais that has become a flashpoint in Europe’s migrant crisis. Three competing
A decorated and highly regarded French General has been stripped of his office due to his involvement in a proscribed protest organised by Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West (PEGIDA) earlier this year.
(AFP) – As France prepares to close down the squalid ‘Jungle’ migrant camp in the northern port of Calais, Amjad from Pakistan can’t wait to get away. “That’s six months they have been telling us that the ‘Jungle’ is done
AFP — French police were investigating Wednesday after shots were fired at a building set to host migrants evicted from the squalid “Jungle” camp in Calais. The gunshots, fired Tuesday night, hit the facade of a holiday camp building in
(AFP) – French police used tear gas and water cannon to disperse some 200 migrants and activists after clashes broke out Saturday as they attempted to hold a banned rally by the squalid “Jungle” camp in Calais, regional authorities said.
Britain should accept hundreds of migrant children from the Calais ‘Jungle’ camp while continuing to fund £87 million worth of security measures around the port, the French President has said. Speaking after making a pledge to close the camp by
PARIS (AP) — President Francois Hollande says he hopes authorities can relocate as many as 9,000 migrants massed in a squalid camp in Calais to reception centers across France in the coming weeks. Hollande, visiting one of France’s 164 such
Activists in the ‘Jungle’ migrant camp in Calais have been accused of “sex tourism” and sexually exploiting migrants, including children, with many attempting to justify the relationships as “normal”.
Nicolas Sarkozy has suggested he will force Britain to open a migrant centre to process asylum claims from migrants if he is re-elected French President next year. Speaking during a visit to the town of Calais – which has become
(REUTERS) – Hundreds of migrants trying to make their way to Britain from Calais in northern France clashed with French riot police on Wednesday, Reuters witnesses and police said.
British taxpayers are to fork out up to £80 million to pay private security firms to guard ports in northern France in a bid to halt illegal immigration. The Home Office is hoping to award contracts to firms to search