In Calais, the State wants to avoid at all costs a new “Jungle”
REPORTING – The city, a real magnet for migrants who want to reach England, is seeing the proliferation of makeshift camps, systematically dismantled by the police.
Garbage bags on their backs, around 250 men are waiting for lunch in the rain. Feet in the mud. The looks are tired. At the end of this vacant lot, in a parking lot, we can see dozens of trucks, waiting to leave for England. Tonight, some of these exiles will try to get on board illegally.
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In the queue, Sayed Mirwais, 25, a law student who arrived from Afghanistan a week ago. That same morning, the small camp in which he slept was evacuated by the police. He who lost his cell phone in Croatia discovers the reality of Calais for exiles like him: “It’s very hard. I have no shelter. I’m not sure where to sleep. I am so sad to have left my country. But I didn’t want to work for the Taliban. I don’t want to fight them anymore. I want to join friends in England but now I’m lost.»This midday, thanks to the van of La Vie Active, an association mandated by the State,