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Latest update : 2017-09-13 France has pledged to take in 30,000 migrants, currently in Greece or Italy, by the end of 2017. But so far, fewer than 2,000 are believed to have been relocated to France. At the French-Italian border, police patrols have risen since the 2016 terror attack in Nice, making it very hard for migrants to reach France. Meanwhile, activists such as farmer Cédric Herrou, w...

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Eight months after France’s notorious “Jungle” camp in Calais was dismantled, migrants desperate to make it to Britain are once again flocking to the northe port town. But this time, they do not even have the basics such as water or tents. On Friday, France’s new Interior Minister Gérard Collomb h...

A group of 80 refugees from France’s “Jungle” camp in the northe port city of Calais have been selected to attend university as part of an initiative to help them ea a degree in preparation for life in their new host country.They were chosen from a pool of 200 applicants from the “Jungle” – a sprawling camp that was home to as many as 10,000 people before it was demolished in October 2016 – to take intensive French language lessons and, eventually follow other coursework at the University of Lille in northe France."I spent two months in the Jungle, and was only able to lea the alphabet," said Abdul-Raouf Hussein-Fadul, a 26-year-old Sudanese man in a baseball cap and white sneakers. "I hope ...

Fresh fires bued inside the Calais 'Jungle' Wednesday as French authorities said they were wrapping up a major operation to evacuate and demolish the notorious shantytown. The operation passed off peacefully for the most part, though some migrants torched tents and shelters in a last act of defiance as their hopes of a new life in Britain evaporated. Fabiee Buccio, the regional prefect, said it was "mission accomplished" for the operation to evacuate the thousands of migrants living in the squalid shantytown. “This is the end of the Jungle,” she added. But charities said many unaccompanied minors had not been processed and FRANCE 24’s reporter at the scene said many migrants remained in the...

Dozens of migrants stranded in the Calais "Jungle", some of them children, desperately sought a way out Thursday as diggers begin tearing down the last remaining shelters in the but-out camp in northe France. To view this video on your mobie device, click here. A day after the official operation to evict the migrants came to a dramatic end, with fires ripping through the shantytown, around 100 people were still waiting to know their fate. The interior ministry said Wednesday that nearly 5,600 migrants had been taken into shelters around France or accepted into Britain – out of the 6,400 estimated by authorities to have been living in the camp up until this week. Officials hailed the operatio...

The French president’s candid remarks on the sensitive issue of Islam, part of a wide-ranging collection of interviews that also touch on his troubled private life, have triggered a frenzy on both sides of the political divide. A 672-page doorstopper of a book, “A President Should Not Say That” is the result of a staggering 61 private interviews François Hollande granted to investigative joualists Gérard Davet and Fabrice Lhomme throughout his term in office. The book is due out on Thursday, but critics have already seized on extracts leaked to the press to round on the unpopular French president – accusing him at once of Islamophobia and “appeasement” to Islam, a hot-button issue in the run...

Charities working with refugees and migrants in the camp in Calais are objecting to the govement's plan to dismantle the camp and disperse the occupants. Although no date has been aounced for the closure of the slum-like camp, known as the "jungle," the French govement has aounced it will happen by the end of the year. The first group of migrants is expected to be moved as soon as next week. Ahead of a meeting Tuesday at France's Interior Ministry, homelessness charity Emmaus asked for postponing the closure because it says "all conditions are not met for an efficient humanitarian operation to take place." A church organization, Secours Catholique, says it's also opposed to cleaning up the a...

Paris demanded on Monday that Britain honour promises to take in migrant children from the notorious Jungle camp in the French port city of Calais, adding to pressure following accusations by the Red Cross that London is dragging its heels. Interior Minister Beard Cazeneuve said he would press the case at a lunchtime meeting in London with his opposite number in the British govement, Amber Rudd. “There are several hundred isolated minors with family in Britain,” Cazeneuve said. “I solemnly ask Britain to live up to its moral duty,” he told RTL radio ahead of his London meeting. The notoriously overcrowded Jungle camp is home to nearly 10,000 people who have mostly fled war and strife in coun...

Two Belgian policemen were arrested after helping a group of migrants retu to France after they wound up in Belgium by mistake while heading to Calais, officials said Thursday. French Interior Minister Beard Cazeneuve summoned Belgium's ambassador to France, Vincent Mertens de Wilmars, to "ask for an explanation (and) express his displeasure", the ministry said. The Belgian officers were arrested by their French counterparts in the border town of Nieppe late Tuesday after they brought the 13 Iraqi and Afghan migrants across the frontier. French police said the migrants had originally been in a truck believing they were heading for Calais -- the northe French port from where they wanted to tr...

Hoping to be nominated by his centre-right party for next year’s presidential election, former French president Nicolas Sarkozy visited Calais this week, where he decried the current govement’s “absence of authority” over the migrant situation. But did Sarkozy, who is campaigning for the Les Républicains's (formerly UMP) party nomination in next year's election, do any better when he was in office, first as interior minister from 2002 to 2007, then as president from 2007 to 2012? The situation in Calais, where the squalid “Jungle” migrant camp has made inteational headlines, is a top subject for politicians of all stripes ahead of party primaries and next year's presidential election. Most o...

Work on building a wall along the approach road to the French port of Calais to try to stop migrants from jumping aboard trucks bound for Britain will begin this month, British officials said Wednesday. UK Immigration Minister Robert Goodwill told lawmakers that security was being stepped up in Calais, home to the “Jungle” camp, where thousands of migrants fleeing war and poverty in the Middle East and Africa hope to cross the English Chael to Britain. The camp and a Franco-British border control deal that effectively pushes the British frontier onto mainland France have been hotly debated since Britons voted in a June referendum to leave the European Union. Goodwill said the wall was part o...

Work on building a wall along the approach road to the French port of Calais to try to stop migrants from jumping aboard trucks bound for Britain will begin this month, British officials said Wednesday. UK Immigration Minister Robert Goodwill told lawmakers that security was being stepped up in Calais, home to the “Jungle” camp, where thousands of migrants fleeing war and poverty in the Middle East and Africa hope to cross the English Chael to Britain. The camp and a Franco-British border control deal that effectively pushes the British frontier onto mainland France have been hotly debated since Britons voted in a June referendum to leave the European Union. Goodwill said the wall was part o...

Since the begiing of the summer, the number of migrants in the Calais "Jungle" camp has risen, and locals are reaching saturation point. On Monday, truckers and farmers blockaded the main A16 motorway to demand the dismantling of France’s largest migrant camp. Our colleagues from France 2 went to meet exasperated residents but also migrants who dream of a better life and who try to reach the UK on a daily basis. On France24.com: Calais 'Jungle' migrant camp to be ‘gradually dismantled’. A programme prepared by Patrick Lovett, Elom Marcel Toble and Claire Pryde. By FRANCE 2 , Emerald MAXWELL Let's block ads! بخوانید...

Truckers, dock workers, farmers and merchants are blocking a major highway in northe France to demand the closure of the Calais migrant camp known as the "jungle," as its population surges and tensions rise. Local authorities are urging travelers to avoid the area in hopes of limiting disruption from the Monday moing blockade, aimed at paralyzing traffic on the route used to access the Eurotuel and port. Interior Minister Beard Cazeneuve aounced Friday that the govement would dismantle the camp "in a controlled operation" as soon as possible, but protesters want him to set a date. The camp, currently home to at least 7,000 migrants from the Middle East and Africa trying to reach Britain, ha...

The "Jungle" camp in the northe French town of Calais, home to thousands of migrants hoping to reach Britain, will be dismantled in stages, the country's interior minister vowed on Thursday. Interior Minister Beard Cazeneuve told a regional paper that he would press ahead with the closure "with the greatest determination", gradually dismantling the site while also creating accommodation for thousands elsewhere in France "to unblock Calais". French authorities have made repeated efforts to shut down the infamous "Jungle" camp, which authorities say is currently home to nearly 7,000 migrants -- a sharp increase in recent months. Some aid groups have put the figure as high as 10,000. The popula...