(AFP) French security forces dismantled a new migrant camp on the outskirts of the northern port of Calais on Friday which was home to hundreds of people hoping to travel across the Channel to Britain.
The head of the region and mayor of Calais had both called on Thursday for the temporary camp in abandoned industrial buildings to be broken up because of recent violence and fears of a new semi-permanent settlement developing.
The operation involving hundreds of officers on Friday morning, which saw the mostly young, male migrants offered places in shelters, came amid a sharp rise in crossings of the Channel by boat this year.
