The plan was revealed by the immigration minister, Robert Goodwill, who said it was part of a £17m package of joint Anglo-French security measures. “We have to escalate things, because for months now the situation has been getting worse and worse”, said David Sagnard, president of FNTR national truck drivers’ federation, as the convoys, each with about 40 vehicles, set off.
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“Walls and fences don’t stop people moving, they just shift their route”, tweeted the refugees and migrant program for Doctors Without Borders (MSF).
Construction work is expected to start this month and finish by the end of the year.
The camp, now home to at least 7 000 migrants from the Middle East and Africa trying to reach Britain, has epitomised the challenges of Europe’s migrant crisis.
Phil Kerton also told Premier people living in the migrant camp in Calais, nicknamed The Jungle, have the potential to contribute to society.
A “big, new wall” will be built in the French city of Calais to stop migrants from hijacking trucks headed to the United Kingdom through the Eurotunnel.
The wall is meant to protect the road from disruption by migrants, thousands of whom live at the Jungle camp.
Britain is to build a “big new wall” at Calais as part of security efforts at the French port, a British government minister has confirmed.
She told peers refugees in Calais should first claim asylum in France and insisted: “We all want the same thing for these children – for them to be safe and to be in an environment that’s in their best interests, certainly away from the Jungle in Calais”.
RHA chief executive Richard Burnett said that lorries and tractors will gather at Dunkirk – north of Calais – and Boulougne to the south at 7.30am local time today in two columns heading along the A16 towards Calais.
The Road Haulage Association (RHA) has said lorry drivers have vowed they were “in it for the long haul” and will stand their ground until action to dismantle the camp begins.
“Trump, no wait, I mean United Kingdom immigration minister says work to start on £1.9m Calais wall”, the Reading Green party tweeted.
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In Calais hundreds of protesters carrying banners gathered on the motorway, which is located close to the entrance to the Channel Tunnel and ferry terminals.
