The 75-page report documents methods used by authorities to prevent the emergence of another major migrant settlement in Calais, five years after the demolition of the sprawling "Jungle" camp which housed up to 10,000 people at its peak.
Police tactics include systematically tearing down migrants' tents in the woods, on wasteland or under bridges, regularly confiscating their belongings and harassing NGOs trying to provide them with aid, according to New York-based HRW. Last week, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin ordered the eviction of a camp housing 400 migrants near a hospital in Calais, which was presented as a danger to the hospital's patients and staff.
NGOs argue that the tactics do nothing more than make migrants already difficult lives even more miserable.
The french police are doing very llittle to stop the illegals.
“A total of 15,400 people attempted to cross the Channel in the first eight months of this year, an increase of 50% over the figure for the whole of 2020”
None of them want to live in France they all want to go to England....I suppose they don't speak French and have heard England is booming after Brexit....