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Hundreds of Migrants Clash With French Police on Road to Calais Port

© AFP 2023 / PHILIPPE HUGUENA migrant (L) talks to an anti-riot policeman during the dismantling of half of the "Jungle" migrant camp in the French northern port city of Calais, on March 1, 2016.
A migrant (L) talks to an anti-riot policeman during the dismantling of half of the Jungle migrant camp in the French northern port city of Calais, on March 1, 2016. - Sputnik International
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Hundreds of migrants clashed with police in northern France on Wednesday in an attempt to get on the road to the Calais port and cross into the United Kingdom, French media reported.

This aerial view taken on August 16, 2016, in Calais, northern France shows tents and people walking in the jungle camp where over 9000 migrants live according to different NGOs - Sputnik International
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Crowds of refugees tried to storm the ring road leading to the French port near the Channel Tunnel but were repelled by police who used tear gas, the Ouest-France daily said.

The scuffles broke out not far away from a wall that is being built with British government’s money to fence off a part of the road in order to stop migrants from jumping UK-bound trucks.

According to the outlet, refugees have been setting up barricades on the road at night to slow down trucks and stow away on them. Several people, including teenagers, have lost their lives in road accidents.

French presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy visited the port city shortly before the clashes, the iTELE television channel said. He reportedly pledged to revise a 2003 law that allowed Britain to shift border controls to the French soil.

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