Calais Is Burning: Armed Migrants Riot To Get To Britain

By: Joseph Curl

The situation in Calais, France, is deteriorating fast.

French authorities called in at least 150 riot control officers this week as refugees set up burning roadblocks to stop trucks. The refugees force the trucks to stop, then climb aboard and hide until they’re in Britain.

“The tactics have been used at least three times in as many weeks, with images shot in the early hours of June 9 showing rubble and branches piled up on the A16 in Calais,” the Daily Mail reported.

“A Polish HGV driver who regularly travels between his home country and Britain posted a video of the incident online, and it shows gangs of mainly young men running along the busy road brandishing weapons and trying to climb into lorries.”

Refugee camps in Calais were dismantled late last year in an effort to fix the situation, but that was short lived. Now, riot police are being sent in to handle the growing problem.

‘Local forces have asked for more support, and we have responded with a new detachments of CRS,’ said an Interior Ministry source in Paris.

‘The exact number of police in the Calais area is not released publicly, but a large number of personnel are in place to maintain security.’

These include soldiers and specialist anti-terrorism teams, as well as regular National Police and gendarmes, said the Interior Ministry source.

It was in October last year that some 8,000 would-be asylum seekers were evacuated from Calais following the destruction of the so-called Jungle shanty town.

Since then everything has been done to stop them returning, with a zero tolerance approach to new settlements.

France’s top human rights official has “sparked fury by calling for the return of camps for UK-bound migrants,” the Mail reported.

“Jacques Toubon, the so-called Rights Defender, said up to 600 asylum seekers were being ‘hounded night and day’ while sleeping in ‘undergrowth in the town’. With charity hand-outs banned, he said they were ‘in a state of physical and mental exhaustion’ and suggested France reinstate sprawling camps akin to the Calais Jungle which was torn down in October.”

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