Calais Migrant Camp - Page 2

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 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.

(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.

Jean-Jacques Lacoste is suing residents of the town he once served as mayor for “incitement to racial hatred” after spotting posters complaining that the resettlement of migrants squatting in Calais to the commune will bring crime and antisocial behaviour. The

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”.

This week the UK began construction on a “great wall” near its most porous border in Calais, France, to keep illegal migrants out.

(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.

Just two months after voting leave the globalist European Union, the UK has announced the construction of a “great wall” near its most porous border in Calais, to keep illegal migrants out.

Nicolas Sarkozy has promised to “go to London the day after the [French] presidential election” to renegotiate an agreement allowing UK border checks to be enforced in France. The former president, who is running to regain his country’s highest office,

Truckers, dock workers, farmers and residents of Calais have shut down main roads into the port town in Northern France, promising to continue the blockade until the French government begins to dismantle the illegal ‘Jungle’ migrant camp. Police recently declared large

(REUTERS) – British and French interior ministers agreed on Tuesday to develop cooperation “now and when the United Kingdom leaves the EU” to address challenges posed by flows of migrants to the European Union.

Just months after it was reported that the majority of the illegal Calais migrant camp had been cleared, its population is back at 10,000, violence has peaked, and police have declared the area a “no-go zone”.

A team of BBC journalists has filmed a shocking attack on a lorry in Calais, with armed migrants blocking a major road with a log and ambushing the vehicle.

French authorities have revealed a “spectacular” rise in the number of migrants living in Calais as the wait to illegally enter the UK, increasing by 53 per cent in just two months.

Taxpayers are forking out for the man who walked to Britain through the Channel Tunnel to live in a £100,000 property. Not only are the public having to foot the illegal migrant’s £700-a-month housing benefit bill, but Abdul Haroun can

The French government has slapped down suggestions that, after Brexit, they will scrap a deal with the UK placing border checks in France and insuring illegal migrants are not waved across the English Channel. Under a bilateral treaty signed in

Thousands of illegal migrants in Calais have blocked roads, rioted and attacked vehicles in coordinated attempts to break into the UK en masse. Ferries were disrupted and police were forced to temporarily close some roads last night, with the attacks

Around 250 vehicles have left London on a “Convoy To Calais” to deliver aid and indulge in poverty tourism, despite French police calling for the procession be to be banned.

From the Times: Politicians in northern France are calling for police reinforcements as migrants set up small camps along the coast in the hope of reaching the UK from ports other than Calais. The calls come amid evidence that migrants

Police in Calais fear that by the summer they may be overstretched and will not be able to keep control of migrants trying to get the the UK. In the Northern French port town of Calais, police are worried that

Illegal migrants camped in Calais, France, are attempting to enter Britain by sailing makeshift rafts across the English Channel, as they become increasingly desperate after the ‘Jungle’ was finally dismantled. The reports come from the French Coastguard, which claims to have seen

Row upon on row of neat little ‘chalets’, built by a local mayor and a charity against the will of the French government. The new camp in Dunkirk, Northern France is certainly more ordered than the Calais ‘Jungle’, but it

Haulage firms are to bring legal action against the Home Office regarding the exorbitant fines imposed on drivers who, unwittingly or not, bring migrant stowaways into the country in their trucks. Lorry drivers caught with illegal migrants on board are fined

Just five illegal immigrants were arrested by Dover police last year, it has emerged, as the number of clandestine attempts to enter the UK tripled over the same period. Port of Dover officers arrested 32 illegal migrants in 2014, meaning there

(Reuters) – French authorities expect to finish clearing half of a migrant shanty town nicknamed the “Jungle” outside the northern port of Calais within days, a spokesman for the region said on Monday. Thousands of migrants fleeing war and poverty

More than 130 right-wing activists blocked various routes into the port of Calais yesterday to protest the “migrant invasion”. They claimed to have taken control of three bridges leading to the city. Blockades were erected, fires lit, drums banged and 14 people

The number of failed attempts by illegally migrants to enter Britain via European ports and the channel tunnel more that tripled in the past twelve months, Home Office figures have revealed. The numbers rose sharply from 4,000 a month in

Doctors and medical staff have confirmed that at least seven boys, aged between 14 and 16, have been raped inside the so-called ‘Jungle’ migrant camp in Calais. In four of the cases the boys had been abused so brutally they required surgery. Three

Calais (AFP) – A group of Iranian migrants sewed their mouths shut in a disturbing protest at the ongoing demolition of the “Jungle” migrant camp in the French port city of Calais on Thursday. AFP journalists said at least nine

A gang of migrants attempted to hijack lories near Calais as the ‘Jungle’ camp descended in ‘Guerrilla warfare’ over night. They threw logs and rocks at moving trucks, brandishing batons and potentially, knives. The BBC first reported the attempted lorry

Angry migrants have set huts alight, hurling rocks at journalists and even pro-migrant activists as authorities moved in to clear the sprawling shantytown otherwise known as the ‘Jungle’ in northern France. Hundreds of riot police were deployed, using tear gas to disperse

Following a long battle, a French judge has approved plans to evict hundreds of migrants and demolish a large proportion of the notorious “Jungle” camp in the northern French port of Calais. Despondent locals have endured years of disruptions, protests, and

Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has visited an illegal migrant camp in Northern France, from where he praised the German open door policy and called on the United Kingdom to “be part of bringing European support”. Mr. Corbyn was periodically

The German government has admitted it cannot account for 600,000 of the 1.1 million migrants who arrived into the country last year – raising concerns that the migrants have absconded into Germany and other European Union (EU) nations. Delays in processing

Just a day after a landmark court ruling declaring that the UK must admit more migrants from Calais, French officials have been ordered to scour the camps to identify suitable candidates. Yesterday it was reported that an Immigration and Asylum Tribunal

(AFP) – Pubs in the French port of Calais might be packed with Brits on a Friday night, but the traditional tourists and truckers have all but disappeared, replaced by activists wanting to help refugees. “Business is good tonight, but