French authorities announced their operation to demolish 鈥渢he Jungle鈥, the makeshift refugee settlement in the northern French port of Calais, was completed on October 26, with refugees bussed to government-controlled centres dispersed throughout France.
But this claim was contradicted by chaotic scenes of the camp in flames and more than 1600 unaccompanied minors being excluded from the transfer to other camps. All the while, British and French politicians bickered over whose responsibility they were.
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The number of refugees in France鈥檚 Calais Jungle camp has topped 7000 for the first time, despite eviction attempts by the French authorities, solidarity groups said on July 21.
that a census carried out by Help Refugees and L鈥橝uberge des Migrants showed there were now 7307 people living in terrible conditions there.