A hundred migrants tried on the night of Thursday to Friday to enter the enclosure of the port of Calais, hampering traffic, and a truck driver was slightly injured, we learned from the prefecture.

“That night, around 3:00 am, a hundred migrants entered the eastern ring road by cutting the fence located at the site of the new port,” said the Pas-de-Calais prefecture, confirming information from

La Voix du Nord

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These migrants "tried to obstruct traffic by depositing equipment on the road" and the police "used tear gas to disperse them", continued the prefecture.

From the same source, traffic was "slightly impacted" during the intervention of the police and "several trucks were damaged by projectile jets".

A driver, slightly injured in the head, was transported by the firefighters to the Calais hospital center.

Calm returned around 4:00 a.m.

Reinforcements requested by the town hall

“There are enough… I don't want to relive the past history. We fought with Natacha Bouchart (LR mayor of Calais) for the dismantling of the jungle (in 2016, editor's note) and for a settlement of the migratory situation on the coast. The State has made commitments, they are not kept, ”said the president of the Hauts-de-France Regional Council, Xavier Bertrand, after a meeting with Natacha Bouchart. In a letter to the Prime Minister, the two elected officials ask for the immediate deployment of additional human and material resources.

"I asked for reinforcements for the BMR (mobile research brigade, in charge of migratory questions), there are only 36 and I warned the State that the smuggling networks had multiplied their activities by two and even three" , pointed out Mrs. Bouchart, also considering it necessary to "modify the judicialization of the migratory question".

Hundreds of migrants, Iraqis, Iranians, Sudanese or even Eritreans, eager to reach England, are in Calaisis.

Many of them try to cross by sea in small boats, others by trucks via the Channel Tunnel.

Since the beginning of May, more than 180 of them have been rescued in French waters and brought ashore, according to figures communicated by the maritime prefecture.

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Migrant has his foot chopped off while trying to board a moving train in Calais

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