French police opened fire Saturday on a car carrying migrants near the port of Calais as it sped toward a group of officers trying to halt it for a check, authorities said.
A former supporter of France's anti-immigration National Front (FN) goes on trial Tuesday for helping her Iranian migrant lover smuggle across the Channel to Britain.
The story of how a Frenchwoman, who used to help campaign for France's anti-immigration Front National party led by Marine Le Pen, fell in love with a migrant from the notorious Calais Jungle refugee camp who had stitched his lips together in protest against French authorities.
French demolition teams cleared the last shacks in the Calais "Jungle" on Monday, signalling the end of the notorious camp as concerns mount for thousands of migrants sleeping rough in Paris.
French President Francois Hollande on Saturday urged Britain to take in 1,500 unaccompanied minors from
Calais' "Jungle" as officials stepped up efforts to finish demolishing the almost-deserted migrant camp.
President Francois Hollande on Saturday hailed this week's evacuation of the squalid Calais "Jungle" as a
success as he vowed France would not accept the emergence of any more makeshift migrant camps.
Fires and gas explosions hit large parts of the Calais Jungle camp on Tuesday night as migrants burned their homes before the demolition of the shanty town.
The first group of children from the French "Jungle" migrant camp with no connection to Britain have arrived in the country, the Home Office said Sunday, ahead of the camp's planned demolition.
A court in France has given the government the green light to tear down the sprawling Calais migrant camp known as the Jungle with the bulldozers now set to move in "in a matter of days".
A first group of unaccompanied migrant children left the Calais "Jungle" camp for Britain on Saturday, days after a
French minister said the UK had a "moral duty" to take them in.
Charities have launched an eleventh-hour bid to block the bulldozing of the Calais Jungle migrant camp, claiming it will be against the fundamental rights of thousands of refugees.
President Francois Hollande paid a visit to Calais on Monday, home to the notorious Jungle migrant camp. He said the squalid camp must be completely closed and called on the UK to "play its part."
President Francois Hollande, under pressure from the right wing, on Saturday stepped up his pledge to combat
illegal migration, vowing to dismantle a squalid settlement near Calais and prevent similar camps from becoming established in France.
With the fences not enough to stop them, a wall is coming up in northern France blocking access to the port of Calais for migrants trying to clandestinely cross the Channel to Britain.
The "Jungle" camp in the northern French town of Calais, home to thousands of migrants hoping to reach Britain,
will be gradually dismantled, the country's interior minister has vowed.
There will be over 10,000 migrants in the Calais "Jungle" camp by September, police have estimated, as French politicians again call for the border deal with the UK to be torn up.
The mayor of Calais in northern France has said the remaining northern part of the Jungle camp, where thousands of migrants are camped out in squalid conditions will soon be cleared.
Nine Iranians who sewed their mouths shut in protest at the demolition of the "Jungle" migrant camp in the northern French port of Calais ended their hunger strike on Friday.
