Several wounded in clashes between migrants and police during dismantling of a camp in Calais

According to Marck Town Hall, bordering, tear gas cartridges and various projectiles rushed to the places on arrival of a municipal team. The tension had fallen in the middle of the morning.

Le Monde with AFP

Clashes broke out, Thursday, December 30 in the morning, between law enforcement and migrants during the dismantling of a camp in Calais, making some fifteen wounded among the police and several migrants, have we learned from associations and prefecture.

“Police and gendarmes have faced, as part of an evacuation operation” at “a hundred migrants showing a very great aggression and refusing to leave the premises,” said the prefecture From Pas-de-Calais in a Communiqué .

From the beginning of the operation, “the police forces were the target of many projectile jets. About fifteen police and gendarmes were injured and supported by the relief services”, a- she assured.

presents on site, EMMA, the Human Rights Observers (HRO) intercassociative network, reported to the France-Presse agency (AFP) of “at least three exiled” injured and transported to the hospital. According to her, some 200 people lived on this site.

“Policing device more important than usual”

During recurring evictions, “Usually people are allowed to leave with their business”, but this morning “the police forces ordered cleaning agents to seize everything and a CRS cord created to 9:30 am, she told. Then, the CRSs have “raced the exiled people to the exit of the perimeter”, their tents then remained inside this scope and “the cleaning agents were ordered to seize everything,” she continued.

A rix then broke “between the exiled people, who launched pebbles, and the CRSs, who used Lacrymo gases and LBDs,” Emma continued. HRO specified Twitter that at least “32 tents [Avaia] was seized and other destroyed. 3 people were conducted urgently to the hospital”.

We denounce state violence against the # exiles of this morning in #calais.
During an expulsion, the CRS have … https://t.co/8sgm3hjgwh

– Humanright Observers)

“The police device was much more important than usual” with some “ten Vans of CRS”, insisted with AFP Pierre Roques, from the inn migrants.

According to the Mark town hall, the campaign houses a hundred migrants, mostly African, who had resettled there after a previous dismantling a few weeks ago.

From the town hall, tear gas cartridges and various projectiles rushed to the places on arrival of the municipal team that traveled on the spot, alerted by residents. The tension had fallen in the middle of the morning.

The site, said of the Turquerie, is located near a roundabout where migrants regularly attempt to board heavyweights in the hope of rallying the United Kingdom, according to the town hall.

/Media reports.