(Anadolu) Police in the northern French city of Calais clashed with migrants Thursday morning as the officers stood at the ready, securing an area that is often an exit point for asylum seekers fleeing through the Channel Tunnel to the UK.
Fifteen of the officers were hospitalized after the fight, according to French news outlet France Bleu.
While one encampment was peacefully cleared near Calais Regional Hospital earlier in the morning, 60 gendarmes and officers of the CRS — France’s special mobile French police force — found themselves attacked by a group of 100 migrants while they stood guard in the [Touquet] Zone, a locale where migrants try to gain passage to the UK by jumping into trucks making the journey.
