French authorities have pledged to dismantle the camp by October and deploy an additional 1,000 security staff in the area, according to the RHA.
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A planned go-slow protest by lorry drivers tomorrow in Calais is likely to cause huge tailbacks for thousands of Britons returning home from Europe after the summer break.
Aid groups, meanwhile, said they were concerned any quick dismantling of the squalid camp would create a bigger humanitarian crisis than the present one.
Also on Friday, the French interior minister told the regional newspaper Nord Littoral that he would press ahead with the closure of the camp “with the greatest determination” and destroy the site in stages.
Demonstrators say they are facing an increased threat from gangs of migrants attempting to enter the United Kingdom, whose tactics include blocking roads with trees to allow them to climb aboard vehicles.
Bernard Cazeneuve said on Friday that the process would be “gradual and controlled.to definitively close the camp” where thousands of people from the Middle East, Africa and Asia have taken shelter, hoping to make their way to Britain.
Crowding at the camp is causing fresh tensions.
The Jungle’s population also includes large numbers of Somalis, Kurds and Syrians.
The minister met with local officials, business representatives and some of the 2,000 police officers who man roadways, the Eurotunnel train site and the port to keep migrants from hopping trucks to Britain.
He said the government was determined to take down the camp, which is estimated to now have about 9,000 people.
Franck Esnee, head of the Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) branch working at the camp, agreed that the Jungle should be dismantled but said the proposed alternatives were “insufficient”.
Britain’s interior ministry could not immediately be reached for comment.
Intensifying the efforts to get those in Calais to leave voluntarily, another 8,000 places elsewhere will be created this year, a lot of them for people registering as asylum-seekers, with thousands more places to follow in 2017, said Cazeneuve.
“The English should examine the requests of all those who want to go to England and they should do it in England”, he said last Saturday.
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Mr Cazeneuve said he had discussed the issue with British Home Secretary Amber Rudd during her visit to Paris this week and would do so again in two weeks when he goes to Britain, adding without explanation, “because on this subject I want, of course, that we go to the end of this with the British”.
