EUROPE-MIGRANTS/CALAIS UPDATE Migrants continue to scramble to join trains bound for Britain

Record ID: 143274

  • Title: EUROPE-MIGRANTS/CALAIS UPDATE Migrants continue to scramble to join trains bound for Britain
  • Date: 21st August 2015
  • Summary: CALAIS, FRANCE (AUGUST 20, 2015) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF MIGRANTS IN CAMP LORRY PASSING BY FENCE MIGRANT ON PHONE LORRY DRIVING BY / MIGRANTS MIGRANTS WAITING VARIOUS OF POLICEMEN AT ROADSIDE NEXT TO CAMP VARIOUS OF FENCES MIGRANT WALKING PAST GRAFITTI NEXT TO CAMP VARIOUS OF MIGRANTS WALKING TOWARDS EUROTUNNEL TERMINAL COQUELLES, FRANCE (AUGUST 20, 2015) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF MIGRANTS SQUEEZING UNDER FENCE AT RAILWAY LINE AT NIGHT MIGRANT CLIMBING OVER FENCE MIGRANTS AND POLICE ON RAILWAY TRACK VARIOUS OF POLICE SHOUTING TO MIGRANTS ON TRACKS MIGRANTS LEAVING, ESCORTED BY POLICE MIGRANTS ON TRACKS MIGRANTS LEAVING, ESCORTED BY POLICE MIGRANT SLEEPING ON TRUCK POLICE VAN DRIVING AWAY / MIGRANT LOOKING ON FROM BRIDGE
  • Embargoed: 5th September 2015 13:00
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  • Location: France
  • Country: France
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVAATV6TYCCBGWMC6LUDF3KXD1RL
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Hours after Britain and France pledged new measures on Thursday (August 20) to tackle Calais' migrant crisis, many continued to scramble to join trains bound for Britain.
    British Home Secretary Theresa May and her French counterpart Bernard Cazeneuve earlier promised increased security and tighter cooperation to deal with gangs of people smugglers on a visit to the northern French town.
    But as night fell in the "Jungle" -- the squalid refugee camp on the outskirts of Calais -- the rhetoric did not seem to have put off the dozens of migrants setting off for the Eurotunnel.
    Nightly they try to breach the security fences to make it onto the tracks and into trains crossing underneath the Channel.
    New barbed-wire topped fencing and a greater police presence mean it has become harder and most return from the four or five hour round trip hoping to try another day.
    The joint plan unveiled by the ministers on Thursday also included a fast-track asylum process and increased humanitarian assistance.
    For Britain and France, Calais is the focus of a wider migration crisis fuelled by conflict, persecution and poverty driving hundreds of thousands to flee Syria, Libya, Sudan and other Middle Eastern and African states.
    Tens of thousands of migrants are arriving in Italy and Greece each week, and Germany expects asylum claims to quadruple to a record 800,000 this year.
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