Migrants were forced out of the site in the early afternoon.
reported, via Religion of Peace: A TERRIFIED Britain-bound lorry driver has been threatened by a migrant wielding a CHAINSAW on another night of horrific violence in Calais. Following the brutal eviction attempt of the Old Lidl camp in Calais, another violent incident took place on January 2. “In my view, this is above all an operation to give people a safe haven. Calais migrants in France threatened a truck driver this week with a chainsaw as he attempted to make his way through rioting migrant mob. Scary Monsters is two separate novellas with interconnecting themes around migration, racism, misogyny and more.
The evacuated migrants will be brought to reception centres in Pas-de-Calais, other departments in northern France, and other regions of the country.īy far the majority of the migrants are men, mainly from Somalia, Sudan, Iran, Iraq and Eritrea. The Pas-de-Calais prefecture said there were about 500 tents at the site, with conditions posing “serious problems of security, health and tranquility”, particularly for staff and patients of a nearby health centre.
Someone will end up being killed if more is not done to protect lorry drivers from desperate migrants in Calais trying to get to the UK, the Road Haulage Association has warned. Migrants attempt to enter the UK illegally by stowing away on trucks, ferries, cars or trains. Photograph: Rafael Yaghobzadeh/Getty Images. “We want to avoid a concentration and a new gathering point in Calais,” Louis Le Franc, the government’s top official for the northern Pas-de-Calais department, said at the scene.Īccording to Le Franc, it was the biggest dismantling of a Calais camp since the Jungle was cleared of some 9,000 migrants between 20. Migrants walk along the railway track leading to the Eurotunnel in Calais in August 2015. Tuesday’s operation started before dawn and had evacuated more than 600 people in 30 buses by the afternoon, according to local authorities, who added that 34 people were detained.
Since January 1, French authorities have intercepted at least 1,317 migrants as they tried to reach the UK, some by swimming across the busy waterway. CALAIS (France): Police evacuate migrants after dismantling their camp near a hospital on Tuesday.-AFPĬALAIS: French police on Tuesday dismantled a camp of about 800 migrants in the port city of Calais, the biggest such operation since the sprawling “Jungle” shantytown was broken up four years ago.Ĭalais continues to attract migrants from the Middle East and Africa who set up makeshift camps along France’s northern coast from where they hope to make the passage across the English Channel to Britain.