CALAIS EXODUS

TEMPERS FLARE AS THOUSANDS OF MIGRANTS LEAVE ‘JUNGLE’ CAMP

THOUSANDS of desperate migrants poured out of the squalid “Jungle” camp in Calais today as the operation to demolish it began.

Tempers flared as the mass exodus started in the morning gloom. Scuffles erupted outside a nearby warehouse where the camp’s residents were being processed before being bussed to temporary accommodation centres across France. A crowd

» PAGE 9 surged forward and barriers were broken down. Hundreds of riot police were on standby amid fears of violence by distraught migrants or hardline activists and sporadic fighting broke out overnight, with fires lit and police using tear gas.

Today, however, many migrants were simply resigned to leaving the shantytown where they had spent months clinging to the hope of reaching the UK. “I never laugh, I never cry. Just nothing,

Flashpoint: a British volunteer struggles to hold back migrants at the Calais processing centre today