"This is the end of the `Jungle`," Calais` regional prefect Fabienne Buccio said. "Mission accomplished."
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Calais Jungle camp clearance accomplished, prefect says
27 October 2016
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French authorities on Wednesday finished clearing the "Jungle", a squalid shanty town built outside the port of Calais by thousands of migrants desperately seeking a passage to Britain, and expected to disperse the last of its inhabitants around France within hours, Reuters reports.
The operation mostly passed off peacefully, although some tents and shelters were torched in a last gesture of defiance as the refugees saw their hopes of a new life in Britain vanish.
"This is the end of the `Jungle`," Calais` regional prefect Fabienne Buccio said. "Mission accomplished."
"This is the end of the `Jungle`," Calais` regional prefect Fabienne Buccio said. "Mission accomplished."
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