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fan_ta
09-18-2009, 03:38 PM
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/6207351/Britain-rejects-demand-it-takes-migrants-from-Calais-jungle-camp.html


Britain rejects demand it takes migrants from Calais 'jungle' camp
Britain has rejected a call for the UK to receive some of the migrants from the so-called 'jungle' camp in Calais when it closes.

fan_ta
09-18-2009, 03:39 PM
'Why do I want to get to Britain? It has to be better than everything else'

Jason Burke visits scores of makeshift camps across northern France, revealing a shifting, more dangerous reality for refugees trying to enter the UK
The three tents are clustered in a ditch, beside a field, in the middle of nowhere. Anthony sits by the fire and strums his makeshift krar, a traditional Eritrean lute. It is 10am and the frost is still on the rutted brown fields that stretch to the flat horizon all around.

A tractor bumps past, a crow flaps across the grey sky, the traffic on the A26 Paris-Calais motorway 500 yards behind a small wood is barely audible. It is an unlikely place for a refugee transit camp, the last stop before the UK. The nearest town is two miles away: the grubby two cafes and post office of Norrent-Fontes.

But the ditch is a temporary home for 26 young Eritreans and Ethiopians trying to get to Britain by hiding in the lorries that stop in the layby every night. And their situation is far from unique. An investigation by the Observer has revealed scores of such makeshift settlements containing an estimated 1,500 people, including women and children, scattered across a huge swath of northern France.

fan_ta
09-18-2009, 03:40 PM
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