(AFP) – A French court on Wednesday sent a 41-year-old British woman to jail for attempting to sneak a young Syrian migrant into Britain. The woman was handed a one-year sentence, with nine months of the term suspended, for hiding
British Judges have a set a new precedent in a case involving Syrian migrants that critics say threatens to circumvent existing asylum policies. Four Syrian migrants currently living in the so-called Calais “jungle” camp have presented a case to the Immigration and
Two Dutch film makers have been attacked in the infamous Calais Jungle camp by migrants wielding pepper spray and a knife. Members of the Calais Migrant Solidarity group have urged them to remove the clip from the Internet, stating menacingly: “You
BOULOGNE-SUR-MER, France (Reuters) —A former British soldier who tried to smuggle a four-year-old Afghan girl into Britain at her father’s request was on Thursday cleared of all charges related to aiding illegal immigration. A French court gave 49-year-old Rob Lawrie only
UK Independence Party MEP Mike Hookem has blasted migrant charity boss Clare Moseley after she said that British hauliers who complain about migrant attacks in Calais should change their jobs. Mr Hookem said her comments were “foolish and polarising”, and
The area around the Eurotunnel entrance at Calais has been described as looking like “the apocalypse” by locals, having been first cleared of all vegetation and now flooded as part of a strategy to keep migrants away. Migrants have been targeting
A group of Scottish school children returning from Italy on a school trip had a terrifying experience when migrants outside Calais smashed the window of their coach as they traveled through. The 35 pupils and their seven teachers were unharmed
The tenacious Sudanese migrant who put the lives of himself and others at risk by walking the full length of the channel tunnel to reach the United Kingdom has been awarded UK asylum, despite facing criminal charges. Sudanese national Abdul Rahman Haroun,
France is to construct a massive new migrant camp on its northern coast, presenting the UK with major new threat to its border security. The camp, which will be France’s first official migrant camp for 13 years, will join the
A group of school children from a privileged British music school are set to travel to Calais in January, to perform a classical concert for the migrants camped out there, and hand out food parcels. Their teachers will be taking
Hauliers have again called for a security boost at Calais as the rise in migrant numbers means they now outnumber security forces by 18 to one. Just 1,300 officers working on shifts are deployed to the town, where nearly 7,000 migrants
Footage has emerged of a migrant wielding a hammer at the driver of a German lorry as he attempts to climb aboard, en route to England. Around a thousand migrants yesterday stormed the Channel Tunnel in a coordinated effort to
As many as 1000 migrants have been involved in a plan to storm the Calais entrance to the Channel Tunnel in a bid to reach England, some armed with iron bars and hammers. The A16 road into Calais had to be
Entrepreneurial migrants in Calais are taking a leaf out of the late Steve Job’s book, and are charging visitors to the Jungle camp €20 to view a mural of the technology tycoon, painted by world-famous graffiti artist Banksy. Around 7,000
The Road Hauliers Association (RHA), which represents British freight drivers, has called on the French military to step up its security operation at Calais Port amid fears that it is only a matter of time before an HGV driver is
A second major migrant camp is forming on the northern French coastline, where trafficking gangs are demanding large sums of money to ferry migrant across the Channel. The new camp is less than twenty miles from the notorious Calais Jungle,
Lorry drivers using the Calais route “work in fear,” and are facing a “living nightmare”, a representative for the haulage industry has said. His organisation, the Road Haulage Association (RHA), has called upon the government to put more pressure on
French human rights lawyers are champing at the bit after claims inhabitants of the ‘Jungle’ migrant camp are being prevented from entering the local municipal swimming pool. Although foreigners and migrants have not been formally banned from the pool, the Calais
A tour bus belonging to the Northern Irish band Ash has been pelted with bricks as it passed through Calais. The driver of the bus was hit by a brick which smashed through his side window, but although shaken by
Members of Parliament are finally waking up to the war zone that is the Port of Calais. Rob Flello MP has promised to raise the issue of violence at the port with the government, following a trip to Calais to
A Hungarian lorry driver has uploaded his expletive-laden rants as he drives through Calais, fending off migrants throwing bottles. The unidentified big-rig driver has uploaded a remarkable 15-minute dashboard cam video (full clip below) of his drive to the port of
A Czech truck driver passing through Calais has narrowly avoided being killed by migrants when they hurled a long wooden stake through the window of his cab before mobbing his vehicle. The driver was able to speed away, but police at
The level of intimidation faced lorry drivers passing through Calais at the hands of migrants is “out of control” and “totally unacceptable”, a spokesman for Britain’s road haulage industry has said. His association has now set up a hotline for drivers
French police have stormed and dismantled a migrant camp near the French city of Calais over fears it was being used to recruit extremists. Around 200 officers descended on the camp at Téteghem, clearing out all the residents before local
Political-medical charity Doctors of the World (Médecins du Monde, MdM) has successfully used human rights legislation to force the French government to take action over conditions at the Calais refugee camp. The changes that will be wrought by the ruling
A fisherman accused of helping migrants cross the English Channel from France is the latest in a growing number of French people turning to human trafficking. The government said this year alone nearly 200 networks operated by 3,000 people have been dismantled in
Britain and France are to strengthen police cooperation to dismantle people smuggling networks and combat undocumented migration, the French interior minister said on Monday. Bernard Cazeneuve and his British counterpart Theresa May signed an agreement at a meeting in London
Illegals attempting to enter Britain by France’s port of Calais are resorting to violence to break their way into lorries, forcing drivers to take radical steps to defend themselves. Although ‘Taser’ stun-guns and CS gas are illegal to own and
They already have shops, restaurants, a library and a nightclub, but now the 6,000 residents of The Jungle migrant camp in Calais, France have something else to keep them occupied. A renowned maître d’ with decades of experience has set
LONDON, United Kingdom – A throng of nearly 200 pro-migrant rioters descended on London’s St. Pancras mainline station tonight – the terminal that connects the UK’s capital city with Europe – to demand “no borders” and “no nations”. The scenes, brought
Migrants camped on France’s north coast continued their bids to reach Britain on Thursday as the first autumn winds blew into their sprawl of tents and shanties and EU leaders arrived in Brussels, 200 kilometres away, to discuss the broader
Over a year into the European migrant crisis, a lorry driver and haulage union representative has warned that morale is at an “all time low” among truckers who are faced with the daily ordeal of navigating the chaos at Calais. Sean Beatson
A group of migrants attempting to make illegal entry into the United Kingdom were shocked after they prised open a lorry in Calais to find it was occupied by a huge polar bear in transit to a wildlife park in
Each weekend, the economic migrants in Calais are treated to “dance parties” in a custom built “theatre” courtesy British “open borders” activists. The venue – a dome-shaped tent called the Good Chance Theatre – was erected by activists in October, and again
The number of illegal entry attempts to the UK between January and June has doubled since the same period last year and is over four times higher than in 2013. In the first six months of 2014 there were 12,980 stopped illegal
A 17-year-old from Eritrea was seriously injured Friday after making an apparent bid to jump on a Eurotunnel shuttle from France to Britain, a firefighter said, adding that his life was not in danger. “For an unknown reason, an Eritrean
A Bradford based charity will now only be helping genuine refugees near Syria after they woke up to the fact that those in the Calais “Jungle” camp are almost exclusively fit young men, who are “happy” to be there and
Two Iranian illegal immigrants have been arrested after walking the entire length of the Channel Tunnel into England. They slipped past security on Friday night as more than 100 migrants broke into the tunnel en masse, many getting as far
Over the weekend there was another violent, coordinated mass invasion of train tracks in Calais. The migrants brought travel to a standstill, making it ten miles down the tunnel where fights occurred. Once again, according to statements from the Police
Investigating the migrant camps in Calais, Northern France, researchers from the University of Birmingham found inhabitants to be inadvertently defecating in their own water supply, and consequently stricken with disease. Describing the camps as “diabolical”, the researchers blamed the people
