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Calais camp scuffles break out as refugees queue to leave Calais camp scuffles break out as refugees queue to leave
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Scuffles have broken out on the second day of an attempt by French authorities to clear the Calais refugee camp, with at least one person removed on a stretcher as French riot police kettled hundreds of migrants and refugees as they queued for buses taking them to accommodation centres across the country. Scuffles have broken out on the second day of an attempt by French authorities to clear the Calais refugee camp, with at least one person taken away on a stretcher.
French riot police kettled hundreds of migrants and refugees queuing for buses to take them to accommodation centres across France.
Police appeared to struggle as hundreds of children penned into a small area outside a processing centre became impatient and anxious to get to the front of the queue.Police appeared to struggle as hundreds of children penned into a small area outside a processing centre became impatient and anxious to get to the front of the queue.
Hundreds of people were forced to sit on the road outside the warehouse, where they are being processed. Volunteers arrived speaking Pashto to the mainly Afghan boys and young men at the front of the queue. Hundreds of people were forced to sit on the road outside the warehouse, where they were being processed. Volunteers arrived speaking Pashto to the mainly Afghan boys and young men at the front of the queue.
Police armed with handguns, Tasers and gas canisters then formed a line and pushed the press back before pushing the children back. Calm was eventually restored after the small area allocated to the children was widened. Dawn with the CRS and Calais kids pic.twitter.com/8wbTL9RJiq
Almost 2,000 refugees and migrants from the camp passed through official registration on Monday and were being transported by bus to regions across France. An estimated 8,000 remain to be processed, the French interior ministry said. Police armed with handguns, Tasers and gas canisters formed a line and pushed the press back, before moving the children back. Calm was eventually restored after the small area allocated to children was widened.
Nearly 200 under-18s have arrived in the UK in recent days and hundreds more are expected to arrive, the home secretary, Amber Rudd, told parliament on Monday. However, a quarter of English councils have refused to take part in resettling refugees. Almost 2,000 refugees and migrants from the camp passed through official registration on Monday and were being transported elsewhere by bus. An estimated 8,000 remain to be processed, the French interior ministry said.
The French government is “determined to stop people coming back to Calais”, the French ambassador to London, Sylvie Bermann, told Radio 4’s Today programme. Nearly 200 under 18s have arrived in the UK in recent days and hundreds more are expected, the home secretary, Amber Rudd, told parliament on Monday. However, one-quarter of English councils have refused to take part in resettling refugees.
“We won’t let them come,” she said. “It has to be clear that Calais is a blind alley and you can’t come to this country.” Refugees who do turn up at the former site in the hope of reaching the UK will be transported to other parts of the country and “convinced to claim asylum in France”, she said. The French government is “determined to stop people coming back to Calais,” the French ambassador to London, Sylvie Bermann, told Radio 4’s Today programme.
“We won’t let them come,” she said. “It has to be clear that Calais is a blind alley and you can’t come to this country.”
Refugees who turn up at the former site in the hope of reaching Britain will be transported to other parts of France and “convinced to claim asylum”, she said.
Authorities hope that demolition crews can move in later on Tuesday to start tearing down the camp, one of the biggest in Europe, where thousands of people have been living in dire conditions. The operation is set to continue until Wednesday.Authorities hope that demolition crews can move in later on Tuesday to start tearing down the camp, one of the biggest in Europe, where thousands of people have been living in dire conditions. The operation is set to continue until Wednesday.
Christian Salome, the head of the Auberge des Migrants (migrants’ hostel) charity, told AFP the process was “working well because these are people who were waiting impatiently to leave”. The Sudan minors rep says they are being discriminated against in Calais, that the processors are doing Afghani and Eritreans first. pic.twitter.com/ERgYmI6vlB
“I’m much more concerned about later in the week when the only ones remaining are those who do not want to leave, who still want to reach England,” he said, estimating their number at about 2,000. Christian Salome, the head of charity Auberge des Migrants, told Agence France-Presse that the process was “working well because these are people who were waiting impatiently to leave”.
“I’m much more concerned about later in the week, when the only ones remaining are those who do not want to leave, who still want to reach England,” he said, estimating their number at about 2,000.