Workers escorted by scores of French police officers are moving into the “Jungle” camp in Calais on Tuesday, demolishing shacks and tents emptied of migrants being bused to centers around France.
Workers begin the demolition of the Calais ‘Jungle’ camp, in Calais, northern France, on October 25, 2016 as hundreds of migrants boarded buses on the second day of a massive operation to clear the squalid settlement. ( AFP PHOTO / PHILIPPE HUGUEN)
They are tearing down wooden shacks and used earth-moving equipment to carry debris away from the sprawling camp that migrants have used for years as a launchpad for attempts to reach Britain.
The demolition work comes on the second day of a massive operation to clear the squalid settlement in northern France, where an estimated 6,000-8,000 migrants, mostly Afghans, Sudanese and Eritreans, have been living.
Around 2,700 people have already been bused away to shelters around France and around 600 unaccompanied minors have been taken into a part of the camp where families had been living, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve says.
— AFP
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