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Saturday, October 24, 2015

Channel Tunnel services disrupted due to Calais migrants sitting on tracks

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/614344/Channel-Tunnel-Calais-migrants-train-tracks

CHANNEL Tunnel trains have been forced to suspend services due to migrants desperate to sneak into Britain disrupting services by sitting on the tracks while their other swarm on to the trains.

By Bunmi Adigun

PUBLISHED: 13:02, Sat, Oct 24, 2015 | UPDATED: 13:18, Sat, Oct 24, 2015

DAILY MIRROR

The migrants sit and stand in front of a Eurotunnel freight train

Drivers are forced to come to a complete stop which allows for more migrants to sneak onto the trains.

Some drivers have complained about being attacked by migrants throwing stones at them.

The crisis threatens to hit halt-term holiday makers heading for France with huge queues building up either side of the Channel Tunnel.

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Aerial view of the 'Jungle'

I told them there was no point running away and they might as well wait until police arrived

Des Kefford

Since the start of the migrant crisis in June 16 people have been killed near the Channel Tunnel.
Britain has invested £7million into fencing at the Eurotunnel terminal however it has done little to stop the wave of migrants getting on to the tracks.

Despite this investment some migrants are still sneaking into the country through the Channel Tunnel.

A passer-by chased and ‘arrested’ 13 illegal immigrants who jumped out of the back of a lorry yesterday.

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Fence to keep migrants off the tracks being installed

Businessman Des Kefford, 31, collared the group of Iraqis as the truck and trailer arrived at an industrial estate in Ipswich, Suffolk.

He said: ‘I told them there was no point running away and they might as well wait until police arrived.’

The terminal is situated just six miles from the migrant camp dubbed the 'Jungle', where up to 6,000 migrants are waiting to reach their goal of coming to Britain.

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Young migrants sneak on to the tracks

Natacha Bouchert the mayor of Calais has called for the French army to help deal with the migrants in Calais.

A report this week has revealed that just four per cent of migrants refused asylum in France were deported last year.

Only 1,432 out of 40,206 failed asylum seekers were actually deported.

French prime minister, Manuel Valls, claims the figures do not include those who chose to leave voluntarily or who successfully appealed deportation decisions.

However the figures for Britain are a lot more comforting, with 76 per cent of failed asylum seekers eventually being deported.