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| EU migrant crisis: France starts clearing Calais 'Jungle' | EU migrant crisis: France starts clearing Calais 'Jungle' |
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| French demolition teams acting on an eviction order have begun dismantling huts with hammers in part of the Calais migrant camp known as the Jungle. | French demolition teams acting on an eviction order have begun dismantling huts with hammers in part of the Calais migrant camp known as the Jungle. |
| They seem to be leaving inhabited huts intact as they move through the camp's southern sector, with riot police standing by in support. | They seem to be leaving inhabited huts intact as they move through the camp's southern sector, with riot police standing by in support. |
| Two bulldozers have appeared on the periphery and a water cannon has been deployed although not yet used. | Two bulldozers have appeared on the periphery and a water cannon has been deployed although not yet used. |
| The government plans to relocate migrants to reception centres. | |
| Those living in the camp, mainly from the Middle East, Afghanistan and Africa, hope to cross the Channel to reach the UK, often using people traffickers to try to enter illegally. | Those living in the camp, mainly from the Middle East, Afghanistan and Africa, hope to cross the Channel to reach the UK, often using people traffickers to try to enter illegally. |
| The authorities believe some 1,000 migrants will be affected by the eviction plan while aid agencies say the number of people living there is much higher. | The authorities believe some 1,000 migrants will be affected by the eviction plan while aid agencies say the number of people living there is much higher. |
| 'No access' | 'No access' |
| Workers in high-visibility jackets could be seen tearing down structures and dumping material in a skip as police stood by. | Workers in high-visibility jackets could be seen tearing down structures and dumping material in a skip as police stood by. |
| Good Chance, a theatre group which works in the camp, said police were preventing activists from entering the camp. | Good Chance, a theatre group which works in the camp, said police were preventing activists from entering the camp. |
| "No volunteers access," it said in a tweet. "People removed from houses. Police blocking entry. This is what they call a 'soft demolition'." | "No volunteers access," it said in a tweet. "People removed from houses. Police blocking entry. This is what they call a 'soft demolition'." |
| A long line of parked CRS riot police vans stretched along a nearby road. | A long line of parked CRS riot police vans stretched along a nearby road. |
| French officials say public areas in the camp such as places of worship or schools will not be affected and describe the clearance as a "humanitarian operation". | French officials say public areas in the camp such as places of worship or schools will not be affected and describe the clearance as a "humanitarian operation". |
| Conditions in the southern sector are squalid and the camp's sprawling presence has become a controversial issue in both France and the UK. | Conditions in the southern sector are squalid and the camp's sprawling presence has become a controversial issue in both France and the UK. |
| The Jungle in numbers | The Jungle in numbers |
| Tea, rivalry and ambition at 'Jungle hotel' | Tea, rivalry and ambition at 'Jungle hotel' |
| Jungle migrants prepare to move | Jungle migrants prepare to move |
| Migrants resist relocation to containers | Migrants resist relocation to containers |
| Officials say migrants can either move into heated container accommodation in the northern sector of the camp, where there is room for 1,500 people, move to similar accommodation centres elsewhere in France or claim asylum in France. | |
| "We try to tell them that they are free... to make their own decisions,'' Nathalie Seys of the social services department told the AP news agency last week, "and that, unlike what we are hearing, they will not be prisoners." | |
| Many residents are reluctant to leave the Calais area. | |
| "Going to Britain... is what people [here] want," Afghan migrant Hayat Sirat told AP. "So destroying part of the jungle is not the solution." | |
| Are you in the area? Have you been affected by the evictions? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk with your stories if it is safe to do so. | Are you in the area? Have you been affected by the evictions? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk with your stories if it is safe to do so. |
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