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FRANCE-UK: Blockade Calais, mayor urges townsfolk as anger rises at migrant crisis

04 September 2014

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"The mayor of Calais threatened to use the town's population as a human barricade to blockade its port on Thursday night, as paramilitary police were drafted from around France in a bid to prevent increasingly desperate attempts from a growing number of migrants attempting to get to the UK."

See the story: Blockade Calais, mayor urges townsfolk as anger rises at migrant crisis (The Guardian, link)

See also: Calais gets police reinforcement to stop migrants storming ferries (The Guardian, link).

There was a demonstration by migrants and their supporters in Calais on 5 September: see: Manifestation des exilés vendredi 5 Septembre à 15h (Passeurs d'hospitalités, link)

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