The UK-based Help Refugees Group tweeted on Tuesday that six shelters had been lit on fire and that police prevented the workers from putting them out early. French authorities blamed the activist group No Borders for the continuing unrest, the AP reported. But many migrants resist French offers of help, afraid of hurting their chances of reaching Britain.
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Two buses carrying 43 migrants left on Friday for Bordeaux and Montpellier, the prefecture said.
The unnamed woman, swaddled in clothes, warned riot police that she would do it if they did not keep away.
Some 7,000 migrants, including many from Syria and Iraq, are crammed into a tiny camp at the Greek border village of Idomeni, and hundreds more are arriving daily.
Multiple tents were also set on fire as demolition teams in high-visibility jackets attempted to tear down the makeshift homes.
Police and migrants face-off.
Clashes broke out between police and refugees and continued into Monday evening after authorities moved in earlier in the day to dismantle parts of the camp, with riot police firing tear gas at refugees hurling stones at the teams. One migrant between the age of 10 and 15 and three activists were arrested, he added, without providing details on their identities.
Those incidents came after the first day of the destruction of the southern part of the cap began after a court petition by charities to stop it was rejected last week.
At least 150 were evicted from the temporary shelters, most taking refuge in tents or communal buildings at the camp.
They fear the changes mean they will be forced to give their fingerprints and claim asylum in France, dashing their dreams of reaching the UK.
Although officials carefully timed the eviction in mid-January with the opening of a new fenced-in section of the Jungle, where immaculate rows of heated shipping containers would hold about 1,500 new beds for refugees, there would not be enough space for all of the newly displaced.
Many are reluctant to make the move as they believe it will make it will make any eventual passage to Britain harder.
On Thursday, David Cameron is due to hold talks about the migration crisis with the French president François Hollande.
Britain has put substantial pressure on France to stem the flow of refugees passing through the country.
France has called the decision “strange”.
Organizations respected for their humanitarian work with migrants, such as Auberge des Migrants (Migrants’ Shelter), GISTI and Secours Catholique were among the 14 who signed the list of charges.
The French government plans to move migrants to proper reception centres.
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Thousands of migrants fleeing war and misery in their homelands use the port city of Calais as a springboard to try to get to Britain on the other side of the English Channel.
