A slum just in front of the Auchan shopping center.
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Migrants: the Ministry of the Interior in the Calais quagmire
In front of the car park, between 1,500 and 2,000 migrants live around a former chicory drying room, belonging to a private owner.
Mostly Kurds.
It looks like the old "jungle" of Calais.
In addition, more visible and more precarious.
No toilets, no showers, no garbage cans ... Behind the wasteland, on municipal land, only a water point and a cell phone charging point have been installed by the town hall.
“
It's very dirty here.
It's cold, we sleep two hours a night, it's very difficult,
”says, in rudimentary English, Hama, a 28-year-old Iraqi.
He arrived from Greece after two months of walking through Europe.
This morning, he warms up by drinking a
nisken
, a typical Kurdish lemon and onion soup.
He claims to have disbursed
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