EU migrant crisis: Calais protest to demand Jungle closure

More than 7,000 people currently live in the Jungle

Thousands of protesters in the French town of Calais are to demand the closure of the migrant camp known as the Jungle.

They plan to block main roads and form a human chain on the road to the port. More than 7,000 people now live there, in squalid conditions. Many of them try to jump on lorries to reach Britain.


Protesters say the camp undermines the town and causes disruption at the port. This is set to be the largest protest local people have held against it.

The mayor of Calais, Natacha Bouchart, plans to join in as she says the situation is becoming unbearable. Those living in the camp, who are mainly from the Middle East, Afghanistan and Africa, hope to cross the Channel, often using people traffickers to try to enter illegally.