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This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
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**** Thousands of refugees hide from French police as Calais 'Jungle' refugee camp is demolished
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Calais 'Jungle' camp goes up in flames on Tuesday (AFP)
France has declared "Mission Accomplished!" after demolishing "The
Jungle," the refugee camp in Calais, and bussing some 4,000 migrants
to 280 reception centers across the country after being separated into
different categories – single men, families, vulnerable people and
unaccompanied minors.
According to Fabienne Buccio, a local official, "There are no more
migrants in the camp. Our mission has been fulfilled."
However, not every tent or shanty was actually "demolished." A lot of
them were burnt to the ground by the refugees themselves, apparently
as a way of saying "goodbye."
And a more serious reason why the mission hasn't really been
accomplished is that there were 7,000 to 10,000 refugees in the camp.
That means that several thousand refugees have fled from the camp, and
are hiding out in order to stay near Calais. Many have simply gone to
another refugee camp in nearby Dunkirk. On top of that, new refugees
are arriving every day.
The people in the camp are escaping war or poverty mostly from
Afghanistan, Sudan, Eritrea and Syria. The reason that migrants have
come to Calais in the first place is because it's near the Eurotunnel
that connects France to Britain underneath the English Channel.
Britain is a favorite destination because of liberal welfare and
medical services policies, and because they prefer an English-speaking
country. So having been desperate enough to have risked their lives
for months to reach Calais, they are going to resist being bussed far
away to another part of France. The Local (France) and Express (London) and France 24
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**** Destruction of Calais camp called 'really dangerous' for children
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Concerns are being raised for the welfare of unaccompanied children.
Although many children were bussed to reception centers, it's believed
that there are hundreds of unaccompanied children who were forced to
flee on Tuesday and Wednesday during the demolition and fire.
Many children were unaccompanied because they had been sent from Syria
or Afghanistan to try to reach family members in the UK, leading some
activists to claim that Britain is responsible for these children.
According to Robert Innes, the Anglican Bishop of Gibraltar in Europe:
"They are gravely at risk. At a time when the UK is rightly spending
millions on investigating historic child abuse, it is striking that
there is a massive influx of traumatized children to Europe at risk of
current abuse, and for whom we are not yet doing enough." Church Times and CNN
Related Articles
KEYS: Generational Dynamics, France, Calais, The Jungle,
Fabienne Buccio, Dunkirk, Robert Innes
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This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
- Thousands of refugees hide from French police as Calais 'Jungle' refugee camp is demolished
- Destruction of Calais camp called 'really dangerous' for children
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**** Thousands of refugees hide from French police as Calais 'Jungle' refugee camp is demolished
****
Calais 'Jungle' camp goes up in flames on Tuesday (AFP)
France has declared "Mission Accomplished!" after demolishing "The
Jungle," the refugee camp in Calais, and bussing some 4,000 migrants
to 280 reception centers across the country after being separated into
different categories – single men, families, vulnerable people and
unaccompanied minors.
According to Fabienne Buccio, a local official, "There are no more
migrants in the camp. Our mission has been fulfilled."
However, not every tent or shanty was actually "demolished." A lot of
them were burnt to the ground by the refugees themselves, apparently
as a way of saying "goodbye."
And a more serious reason why the mission hasn't really been
accomplished is that there were 7,000 to 10,000 refugees in the camp.
That means that several thousand refugees have fled from the camp, and
are hiding out in order to stay near Calais. Many have simply gone to
another refugee camp in nearby Dunkirk. On top of that, new refugees
are arriving every day.
The people in the camp are escaping war or poverty mostly from
Afghanistan, Sudan, Eritrea and Syria. The reason that migrants have
come to Calais in the first place is because it's near the Eurotunnel
that connects France to Britain underneath the English Channel.
Britain is a favorite destination because of liberal welfare and
medical services policies, and because they prefer an English-speaking
country. So having been desperate enough to have risked their lives
for months to reach Calais, they are going to resist being bussed far
away to another part of France. The Local (France) and Express (London) and France 24
****
**** Destruction of Calais camp called 'really dangerous' for children
****
Concerns are being raised for the welfare of unaccompanied children.
Although many children were bussed to reception centers, it's believed
that there are hundreds of unaccompanied children who were forced to
flee on Tuesday and Wednesday during the demolition and fire.
Many children were unaccompanied because they had been sent from Syria
or Afghanistan to try to reach family members in the UK, leading some
activists to claim that Britain is responsible for these children.
According to Robert Innes, the Anglican Bishop of Gibraltar in Europe:
"They are gravely at risk. At a time when the UK is rightly spending
millions on investigating historic child abuse, it is striking that
there is a massive influx of traumatized children to Europe at risk of
current abuse, and for whom we are not yet doing enough." Church Times and CNN
Related Articles
- France to demolish 'The Jungle' migrant camp in Calais (22-Oct-2016)
- 'Swarm' of migrants causing crisis at Eurotunnel from France to Britain (31-Jul-2015)
KEYS: Generational Dynamics, France, Calais, The Jungle,
Fabienne Buccio, Dunkirk, Robert Innes
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Phone: 617-864-0010
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Web site: http://www.GenerationalDynamics.com
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