France: Police shut down Calais squatter camp for U.K.-bound migrants
April 23, 2009
Eric Besson, who is visiting Calais, said a wooded area known as 'the jungle', which is home to around 800 migrants and where a London student was raped last year, would be cleared and sealed off.
'The jungle will cease to exist,' he said as he visited a chemical factory next to the shanty town and which has endured repeated thefts.
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The Telegraph (U.K.)
France's Immigration Minister will today be urged to persuade Britain to sign up to an agreement that will remove passport controls at Calais.
The radical measures will be put to Eric Besson by the port's mayor Natacha Bouchart at a crunch meeting aimed at 'cleaning up' a problem she blames on the lure of Britain's benefits culture.
Bouchart will also ask Besson to bring in the Army to destroy shanty towns full of UK-bound migrants.
The Daily Mail (U.K.)
LILLE - French authorities have released around 190 undocumented migrants, officials said Wednesday, one day after a major police operation against a squatter camp in the Channel port of Calais.
Only nine of the approximately 200 migrants detained in Tuesday's raid were still in custody, police and judicial officials said, as prosecutors decided whether they should be charged in relation to people trafficking.
Aside from the nine being held for questioning, nine more have been freed pending hearings on whether they should be expelled from France for breaching immigration rules, Boulogne prosecutor Jean-Philippe Joubert told AFP.
Agence France-Presse
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