Migrants police reinforcements around the port of Calais – 20minutes.fr

Migrants police reinforcements around the port of Calais – 20minutes.fr

Prefect of Pas-de-Calais, Denis Robin, announced Monday the arrival of 40 additional police officers to “improve the protection” of the port of Calais, where hundreds of migrants trying to spend every day in England .

“I got additional reinforcements at the port of Calais to improve the protection and monitoring against the entire night, which was not the case so far,” said the warden at a press briefing.

A half-company of CRS, about 40 police officers, is affected since the night of Sunday to Monday in the port area, in addition to two half-companies, he has said.

This is to curb “extremely strong migratory pressure at the port of Calais,” while candidates for exile, which previously sought “the greatest discretion” in their attempt to pass in England , “now operate directly on the ring roads of access to the port and in large numbers, perhaps trying to saturate the security arrangements put in place,” said Robin.

The increase in the number of migrants, “the order of 50% in a few months,” causes “increased insecurity for migrants themselves,” said he lamented, citing a brawl between “100 and 150″, which slightly injured 13 in the night from Sunday to Monday, “perhaps logical territory.”

The brawl broke out in the industrial area of ​​the Dunes, near the Tioxide plant, squatted by hundreds of migrants and the subject, as another squat in the city established since July 12 on a former site recycling of metals, a court disposal.

In addition to tensions between communities and between migrants and drivers of trucks, the “migration pressure” presents a “risk” a drop “of the Port of Calais” and the economic activity, said Mr Robin.

The prefect called economic operators and the mayor to take as their “responsibilities”, asking for hauliers to “close their trailers” to prevent migrants go up, and the town of Calais to “reflect a fluidity of movement” to “erase the deceleration points that create an attraction.”

Between 1,200 and 1,300 migrants migrants, mostly from East Africa, are currently present Calais said Mr. Robin.