VIDEO & PHOTOS: Activists Try to Prevent Police Demolishing Calais Jungle

Wed Mar 2, 2016 14:54:40

Activists try to block police attempts to demolish Calais jungle, as evacuation continues in the northern French migrant camp.

French riot police and deconstruction workers arrived for a new day of demolition of the shanty town outside Calais in northern France on Wednesday March 2.

Activists and a migrant tried to block the demolition in the morning by sitting on top of a hut planned for destruction.

"The aim is to try and stop the demolition, although the police showed very little regard for that kind of peaceful protest yesterday, sadly," British volunteer Rowan McAllan, originally from Norwich, told Reuters Television.

Thousands of migrants fleeing war and poverty, from Afghanistan to Syria, have converged on the northern port over the past year.

Many attempt to climb illegally onto trains using the Channel Tunnel or into lorries heading to Britain where they hope to settle. Their presence has led to tension with some of the local population and to a permanent police deployment.

The demolition comes after a judge upheld a government order last week to evict migrants living in the southern part of the camp, although a few makeshift buildings of social importance such as a church and a school are to remain untouched.

Around 100 makeshift homes were torn down yesterday during a French-court authorized demolition of the campsite

After it Migrants have started to torch the notorious Jungle camp in protest over the demolition of the site, leading to clashes between angry protesters and police.

 

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