Violence in evacuation 'jungle' Calais

- French police Monday in the evacuation of the migrant camp in Calais clashed with migrants and protesters. A group of 150 to 200 people trying to prevent the eviction of the camp and pelted the police with stones. The police continued in turn tear gas.

The police arrived earlier in the day with 55 vehicles in the 'jungle' to clear a part of it. Police have residents in the southern part of the camps told to leave, for example, to the shelter that was set up for them in the form of a container camp. Dismantlers remove the tents and huts.

The eviction of slum would start a week ago, but was delayed by complaints from migrants and associations against the decision to evacuate. The court in Lille Thursday showed off those objections.

In the jungle the makeshift settlements referred to migrants who want to go through Calais to England. At the beginning of the day was already made an arrest. The suspect tried a group that carried out the evacuation to impede the work.

It may take some time for all the shelters and waste from the area of ​​approximately 100 by 100 meters away. In the slum home to an estimated 3,000 people.