New migrant camp springs up 800 yards from original Calais site with a sign declaring ‘Refugees welcome’
Crowds of mostly Ethiopians, Iraqis and Afghanis sleep rough in nearby woodland
A NEW Jungle migrant camp is springing up 800 yards from the original Calais site.
Shelters have already gone up along with a sign declaring “Refugees welcome”.
Volunteers dish out free food, a water tank has been installed and there is even a makeshift hairdresser’s.
Crowds of mostly Ethiopians, Iraqis and Afghanis, some sleeping rough in nearby woodland, say they hope to stay in France or get to Britain. Ethiopian Khalid Gibite, 20, told The Sun: “I have been here for three months. I want to go to England to study and to learn.”
Motorway signs written in English and French warn: “Slow down, pedestrians and obstacles in the road”. A 22-year-old Eritrean was found dead on the road on Friday.
France’s highest court has ordered the government to fit sanitation and water points.
But Calais mayor Natacha Bouchart refused, saying it puts locals “again under the threat of the creation of another Jungle”.
The original Jungle, home to up to 9,000 migrants, was levelled nine months ago.
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