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*** 12-Apr-17 World View -- Migrant camp in northern France housing 1,600 people burnt to the ground

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  • Migrant camp in northern France housing 1,600 people burnt to the ground
  • The Le Touquet treaty, which moves Britain's border into France, will be reconsidered

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**** Migrant camp in northern France housing 1,600 people burnt to the ground
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Grande-Synthe refugee camp in Dunkirk, France, burnt to the ground Monday night (Telegraph)

Huge fires burned to the ground a Dunkirk migrant camp in northern
France, populated by 1,600 refugees who were there in the camp in the
hope of reaching Britain, usually by sneaking onto trucks and ferries
crossing the English Channel.

The camp had been built by Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without
Borders), including hundreds of wooden huts. The camp opened in March
2016 as the first camp in France to meet international humanitarian
standards, where migrant families could live in relatively dignified
conditions in heated wooden cabins. However, conditions deteriorated
within a few months as hundreds more migrants arrived at the camp.
Tensions were high in the camp because the number of people living
there far exceeded the capacity of the camp, which was more like 700.

The population of the camp was originally Iraqi and Kurdish migrants.
But when migrant camp known as "The Jungle" in nearby Calais was
closed down in October of last year, a large number of the 7,000
migrants that had been housed there moved to the Dunkirk camp, which
has been called "the new jungle." Many of these new arrivals were
afghans who did not get along with the Iraqis and Kurds, resulting in
tensions that sometimes led to violence.

The first fire broke out early Monday evening, following fighting
between groups of migrants of different nationalities. Some 600
migrants took part in the fighting. The fights continued late into
the night, and several hours later, additional fires burned down
almost all of the wooden huts, leaving nothing behind but ashes.
According to French officials, multiple fires must have been set on
purpose.

The migrants had been evacuated and rehoused in gymnasiums that had
been empty and were converted into temporary emergency shelter in the
Dunkirk suburb of Grande-Synthe. However, those can only accommodate
900 people. Some migrants say that they'll return to Calais and set
up makeshift camps.

Officials are unable to say how long the migrants will stay in the
gymnasiums, or what will happen to them next. With the warm weather
of summer, a new flood of migrants is expected. RFI and Independent (London) and New Statesman

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**** The Le Touquet treaty, which moves Britain's border into France, will be reconsidered
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The Le Touquet Treaty of 2003 was designed to allow France and Britain
each to perform its border checks in the other country, as if there
were land borders between the two countries, rather than just a sea
border.

Without this treaty, a person traveling by ferry from France to
Britain would be allowed to travel, and would only get an immigration
check once he arrived in Britain. But under the treaty, Britain can
perform immigration checks while the traveler is still in France, and
block the person from traveling to Britain.

Many people blame the existence of the refugee camps in Calais and
Dunkirk on the Le Touquet Treaty. According to their reasoning, if
migrants could simply get on a ferry to Britain, then the refugee
camps would be in Dover rather than in Calais or Dunkirk.

When Britain passed the "Brexit referendum" on June 23 of last year,
calling for Britain to leave the European Union, some French officials
immediately began calling for an end to the Le Touquet treaty.

In the months that followed, French and British reaffirmed their
commitment to the treaty. However, that may not continue. In the
upcoming French presidential election, all three leading candidates in
the French presidential election are promising to withdraw from this
treaty. Telegraph (London) and Guardian (London - 30-Aug-2016) and Economist and PDF: Text of 2003 Le Touquet Treaty

KEYS: Generational Dynamics, France, Dunkirk, Grande-Synthe refugee camp,
Calais, Britain, English Channel, Iraq, Kurds, Afghanistan,
Le Touquet Treaty, Brexit

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