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| Calais camp: riot police prepare to demolish refugee dwellings – live | Calais camp: riot police prepare to demolish refugee dwellings – live |
| (35 minutes later) | |
| 5.49am BST | |
| 05:49 | |
| Police are reportedly due to move into the camp in one hour. | |
| Our corresp @cntrentF24 at #Calais says several hundred migrants already queing to leave camp. Police due to move in in an hour. | |
| 5.45am BST | |
| 05:45 | |
| More images are coming out of refugees and migrants queuing to enter the processing area. | |
| Calais pic.twitter.com/zPoh8ukjZu | |
| Preparing to go. pic.twitter.com/6boWqUt4dD | |
| This is what the warehouse looked like yesterday: | |
| Adults, families, vulnerable & unaccompanied children will queue up here. #calais pic.twitter.com/pz2h0wizit | |
| 5.36am BST | |
| 05:36 | |
| Story of the Calais refugee camp | |
| Christmas Day 2001 | |
| Eurotunnel, which said it was stopping 200 refugees each night from smuggling themselves into Britain, is stormed by 500 people who break through security barriers but fail to reach England. | |
| December 2002 | |
| Sangatte refugee camp – opened in 1999 by the Red Cross in a warehouse to shelter 600 people who had been sleeping rough around the port – is closed after the UK agreed to give temporary work permits to accept 1,250 Kurds and Afghans, while France gave residency to 400. | |
| April 2009 | |
| French police arrest 190 at one of the small, outdoor camps that have sprung up since 2002 and the site is bulldozed. | |
| September 2009 | |
| A raid is staged to bulldoze another camp and 276 are arrested. | |
| July 2014 | |
| French police again raid a “jungle” camp. Those arrested are briefly detained. | |
| October 2014 | |
| Riot police use teargas to disperse 350 refugees trying to climb aboard trucks at Calais port. | |
| January 2015 | |
| France opens a centre at Calais to shelter 50 women and children. Around 1,000 are now sleeping rough at the new “jungle” on wasteland outside Calais. A second camp springs up in Dunkirk, further east. | |
| June 2015 | |
| Calais council estimates 3,000 are encamped around the town - 600 of them unaccompanied children. By November the total is 6,000. | |
| March 2016 | |
| David Cameron announces £17m is to be given to France to help deal with the migrants, including building a 1km long wall. | |
| April 2016 | |
| A call for Britain to take in some 3,000 refugee children is rejected by MPs. | |
| May 2016 | |
| A new Immigration Act – the seventh in eight years – includes the “Dubs amendment” saying the UK will give sanctuary to unaccompanied children from Europe. To date, no children have been admitted to the UK under Dubs. | |
| September 2016 | |
| Lorry drivers and local traders are joined by the mayor of Calais in a protest calling for the closure of the “jungle”. | |
| October 2016 | |
| 21 children who have relatives in the UK arrive, to uproar from anti-immigration campaigners who dispute their age. | |
| 5.26am BST | |
| 05:26 | |
| The operation is being covered by hundreds of journalists. | |
| 700 journalists in #Calais to witness the destruction of the refugee and migrant camp | |
| 5.24am BST | |
| 05:24 | |
| Refugees and migrants wait to be processed | |
| The sun is yet to come up in Calais, but some are already packed and queuing. | |
| Migrants from Calais jungle already waiting to be processed. pic.twitter.com/vjGHxp4xVp | |
| Queues already forming outside Calais hangar where migrants must register. pic.twitter.com/3IJgoD24FF | |
| Updated | |
| at 5.27am BST | |
| 5.19am BST | |
| 05:19 | |
| Unrest flares ahead of evictions | |
| The Press Association reports that ahead of the looming eviction, violence in the camp flared, with tear gas released by police on Saturday and Sunday evenings amid clashes involving small rocks being thrown. | |
| Camp residents reportedly shouted and jeered as a convoy of police vans drove past the edge of the camp as darkness fell on Sunday. | |
| 5.01am BST | 5.01am BST |
| 05:01 | 05:01 |
| Fears children could be lost in 'total chaos' | Fears children could be lost in 'total chaos' |
| Alexandra Topping, Lisa O’Carroll and Angelique Chrisafis write that French and British authorities are racing to process hundreds of children in the Calais refugee camp amid fears that vulnerable minors could be lost in the “total chaos” of the site’s planned demolition. | Alexandra Topping, Lisa O’Carroll and Angelique Chrisafis write that French and British authorities are racing to process hundreds of children in the Calais refugee camp amid fears that vulnerable minors could be lost in the “total chaos” of the site’s planned demolition. |
| Read the full story here: | Read the full story here: |
| 5.00am BST | 5.00am BST |
| 05:00 | 05:00 |
| French police prepare to clear site | French police prepare to clear site |
| Police are preparing to move into the camp and start demolition and the Guardian is going to be following events as they unfold. | Police are preparing to move into the camp and start demolition and the Guardian is going to be following events as they unfold. |
| The authorities plan to separate residents of the camp into groups. Those with families ties to the UK will be sent to Britain, along with at least 1,000 children. The rest will be moved to a hangar, from which they will be bussed to towns in regional France and given the opportunity to claim asylum. | The authorities plan to separate residents of the camp into groups. Those with families ties to the UK will be sent to Britain, along with at least 1,000 children. The rest will be moved to a hangar, from which they will be bussed to towns in regional France and given the opportunity to claim asylum. |
| Clearing the camp is expected to take a week. | Clearing the camp is expected to take a week. |
| The French interior ministry has said it “does not want to use force but if there are migrants who refuse to leave, or NGOs who cause trouble, the police might be forced to intervene”. | The French interior ministry has said it “does not want to use force but if there are migrants who refuse to leave, or NGOs who cause trouble, the police might be forced to intervene”. |
| Updated | Updated |
| at 5.04am BST | at 5.04am BST |