Channel Tunnel services have been disrupted after about 150 migrants tried to storm the Calais terminal.
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In 2014, French riot police cleared three campsites housing hundreds of immigrants in Calais.
“The French police conducted a search, in the process of which they found a migrant who they declared deceased a short while later”. They were halted by police. “One managed to board a freight shuttle and unfortunately fell off, losing his life”, the Telegraph reported.
The organization tweeted the freight train had stopped following an incident on the French side of the tunnel at 05:00 BST. He was thrown off and collided with a concrete pylon.
A migrant was found dead on the Eurotunnel site on June 26.
Freight services are also delayed, Eurotunnel said, and freight lorries queued on the M20 in Kent for the second time this week.
“Whilst the Port of Dover has remained open and operational throughout, we and our ferry business partners can not provide the essential service and operations for the United Kingdom and for Europe for which we are world renowned, if Calais is shut or its operations are limited”.
“Locally we work with the French police on a very close basis to try and find the best organisation of resources to prevent migrant access, but we are confronted with such an enormous number of people it becomes impossible”.
The migrants, whose presence has long caused friction between London and Paris, sometimes go to dramatic lengths to smuggle themselves into Britain, and have even been recorded trying to swim across the Channel.
Around 3,000 migrants live around Calais, many trying to reach England illegally through the tunnel.
There are around 3,000 people displaced from countries such as Eritrea, Afghanistan and Syria setting up camp near the port.
Industrial action by ferry workers this summer has come on top of the problems faced by hauliers with migrants desperately trying to clamber on board their HGVs to the United Kingdom.
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Amnesty worldwide issued a report today in which it revealed a surge in refugees and migrants suffering violent abuse and extortion at the hands of authorities and criminal gangs as they attempt risky journeys across the Balkans – which has overtaken the Mediterranean route to become the busiest irregular passage to the European Union.
