France:
'The Jungle' Migrant Camp
"Plan
will proliferate a multitude of mini-Calais throughout the country."
by Soeren Kern
• September 30, 2016 at 5:00 am
- In 2001 alone,
54,000 people "attacked" the Channel Tunnel terminal in
Calais and 5,000 had gotten through.
- Migrants
evicted from Calais moved to Paris and established a massive
squatter camp at the Jardins d'Eole, a public park near the Gare du
Nord station, from where high-speed Eurostar trains travel to and
arrive from London. The area has become a magnet for human
traffickers who charge migrants thousands of euros for fake travel
documents, for passage to London.
- The President
of the Alpes-Maritimes region, Eric Ciotti, criticized the
government's "irresponsible" plan to relocate migrants in
Calais to other parts of France. He said the plan would
"proliferate a multitude of small Calais, genuine areas of
lawlessness that exacerbate lasting tensions throughout the country."
- A whistleblower
reported that volunteer aid workers at "The Jungle" were
forging sexual relationships with migrants, including children.
"Female volunteers having sex enforces the view (that many
have) that volunteers are here for sex," he said.
French riot police attempt to control a crowd of
migrants in "The Jungle" squatter camp near Calais, on February
29, 2016, as demolition teams begin dismantling the southern part of the
camp. After being pelted with stones and other objects, police responded
with tear gas and water cannon. (Image source: RT video screenshot)
French President François Hollande has vowed "definitively,
entirely and rapidly" to dismantle "The Jungle," a squalid
migrant camp in the northern port town of Calais, by the end of this
year.
Hollande made the announcement during a September 26 visit to Calais
— but not to the camp itself — amid growing unease over France's
escalating migrant crisis, which has become a central issue in the
country's presidential campaign.
The French government plans to relocate the migrants at the camp to
so-called reception centers in other parts of the country. But it remains
unclear how the government will prevent migrants from returning to
Calais.
Sceptics say the plan to demolish "The Jungle" is a
publicity stunt that will temporarily displace the migrants but will not
resolve the underlying problem — that French officials refuse either to
deport illegal migrants or else to secure the country's borders to
prevent illegal migrants from entering France in the first place.
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