French Britain authority demolish migrants Concentration Camp
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CALAIS, France — French police on Tuesday cleared out a squalid, sprawling forest camp known as the “jungle” harboring hundreds of illegal migrants dreaming of slipping across the English Channel into Britain.
French Immigration Minister Eric Besson called it a “base camp for human traffickers” and said he would return the rule of law to the northern French coast. The people camped here have strained relations between Britain and France, and become a symbol of France’s struggle with illegal migration.
About a dozen vans carrying riot police arrived at the site in the northern coastal town of Calais on Tuesday morning and officers began moving in on the camp.
Most of the migrants are from Afghanistan, many having reached Calais after costly and dangerous clandestine journeys across Asia and Europe, by foot or hidden in trucks and boats. Several immigrants rights activists were also at the site.
“On the territory of this nation, the law of the jungle cannot endure eternally,” Besson said, calling for a return to order for the benefit of the migrants and Calais residents. The jungle “is not a friendly humanitarian camp,” Besson said on RTL radio Tuesday.
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