France Migrants

• French police fire at car carrying migrants after it speeds towards Calais checkpoint

  None of the nine migrants aboard the vehicle was wounded, but the car hit one of the officers and injured his knee. 

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  Nov 25, 2017
  
• French authorities begin clearing migrant camp in Paris

  Police and city officials are clearing out hundreds of migrants camped out on sidewalks in northern Paris in a camp that recently grew into a new challenge for the French government.

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  Nov 4, 2016
  
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• Underage migrants being moved out of Calais to sites around France

  French authorities began busing underage migrants Wednesday out of Calais to processing centres around France, as the government tries to bring a definitive end to the notorious migrant camp in this English Channel city.

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  Nov 2, 2016
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• Fire engulfs Calais ‘Jungle’ camp as migrants continue to evacuate

  Firefighters have doused several dozen fires set by migrants as they left the makeshift camp where they have been living near the northern French city of Calais.

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  Oct 26, 2016
• French police ordered to keep guard at Calais migrant camp during mass evacuations

  French police are being deployed to keep order among the young migrants pushing barriers at Calais' makeshift camp.

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  Oct 25, 2016
• France begins operation to move 6,000 migrants from Calais camp

  Lines of migrants with their lives in small bags are walking to a registration centre in the French port city of Calais, the first day of the mass evacuation and destruction of the filthy camp they called home.

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  Oct 24, 2016