French police bulldoze immigrant camp near Calais

AP reports that French police bulldozed a camp — known as “the Jungle” — near the northern city of Calais on Tuesday, detaining hundreds of undocumented immigrants who had hoped to slip across the English Channel into Britain. French Immigration Minister Eric Besson “said he would return the rule of law to the northern French coast. `The law of the jungle cannot last eternally,’ Besson said. `A state of law must be re-established in Calais.'”

The migrants were mainly from Afghanistan. A total of 278 people – nearly half of them minors – were detained in the first part of the operation.

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