1:15 p.m., Sunday … – Calais, the last chance in streaming – Replay France 2
aired on Sun. 03.07.22 at 1:22 p.m. available until 28.03.25
Direction Calais, in the department of Pas-de-Calais, in the Hauts-de-France region, a city that has long been associated with the “jungle”, a kind of shantytown where nearly 13,000 migrants have come together. An improbable city, filmed by cameras from all over the world. And the images of its dismantling in October 2016 went around the world. What has become of the “jungle” today, five years later? Is the city of Calais still the starting point for England?
Candidates for exile tried their luck in the trucks using the Channel Tunnel, but under pressure from the British government, the port and the roads were protected. The city is barricaded. Taking the sea to come has become a solution for migrants who have never stopped: their number has doubled this year. They would be around 1,600 and many cross the Channel. On board inflatable boats called “small boats”, men, women and children, always in excess… There would have been around 12,000 passages in 2021, or 50% more in one year.
A signed report Cyril Zha, Edouard Mounier, Patrice Brugère and Nicolas Berthelot