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27 of October, 16:55

In the French Calais demolished "the Jungle" In the French Calais ceased to exist the city of illegal migrant "Jungle". There ended operation to evict several thousand people. Has not done without collisions. The whole night on the camp with the flames - leaving the migrants set fire to their homes.

The French authorities were planning to do it in a week, but the eviction went much faster. The middle of the 3 day registration desire to leave was expressed by even those refugees who lived in a the containers. 6 thousand people on the buses went to different parts of the country. The campground was empty.

Among the smoldering tents there are those who have not given up hope to be on the other side of the Strait. Those who left their homes were set on fire. To request the prefect not to do so, replied that such is the tradition and the modern European norms of migrants is not collected. When the flames spread to the Central shopping street, there was a loud popping noise exploded gas cylinders. One person was injured. Firefighters extinguished the fire till morning.

Several brigades in the afternoon ploughed through the narrow streets, the tents were exploding one after another in different parts of the camp, the charred skeletons have broken manually. "The jungle" in the fire. The smoke in the place of tents. Solid ashes. The road is closed.
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