French police evict hundreds of immigrants from camp near Calais city

The French police have dismantled this Friday a makeshift camp for immigrants in the coastal city of Calais, in the north of the country.

During the police operation, hundreds of people have been evicted from sheds and shacks installed on the side of the Saint-Omer road, in the south of the city.

Among them, there were 30 children, according to local authorities.

This is one of the largest migrant eviction operations in this French town in recent months.

Since the relaxation of measures to contain the coronavirus and the reopening of borders within the European Union, new waves of migrants have again begun to arrive in Calais, hoping to cross into the United Kingdom through the canal tunnel. Stain.

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Following the eviction, which began at six in the morning, the immigrants have been rehoused in various reception centers in the region, according to local authorities.

Calais has been home to illegal immigrant camps for years.

The authorities have repeatedly dismantled them but, after a few months, they reappear in other nearby locations.

In 2016, the French police dismantled the largest of them, known as the

Calais

, where up to 9,000 people were crowded.

Since that police operation, immigrants have been divided into smaller camps, mostly on the outskirts of Calais.

Many of the people waiting in the French city to try to cross the Canal come from North Africa, the Middle East and Asia, and have arrived in Europe after fleeing countries ravaged by war and mired in poverty.