'One of six hidden camps in the Calais region is seeing ‘several dozen’
new arrivals each week as former ‘Jungle’ residents return to northern France'
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It comes two months after the closure of the Jungle, which was intended to bring
an end to the refugee situation in Calais by destroying the camp and dispersing
its residents to reception centres (CAOs) across France — an operation the
authorities hailed as a “success”.
However, scores of refugees and migrants who were taken on buses to CAO
centres have now started making the journey back to the north of France.
Many of them are children whose asylum claims were rejected by the Home
Office earlier this month, and have decided to make their own way to the UK
after experiencing poor living conditions in the French centres.
One so-called “secret” camp lies on the edge of a small French village called
Norrent-Fontes, around 30 kilometres from the port of Calais.
Julien Muller, volunteer for a small French charity called Terre d’Errance which
supplies aid at the Norrent-Fontes camp, told The Independent:
“There are more and more people coming back. This week there has been
several dozen people arrive. I suppose it will grow more in the coming months.
“With the UK Government closing down its transfers of underage refugees to
the UK, there have been a lot of minors coming back.
"There are people who are clearly underage and clearly have family in the UK,
but they have been told that now it’s closed. Now they're coming back to try
make their own way...'
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new arrivals each week as former ‘Jungle’ residents return to northern France'
It comes two months after the closure of the Jungle, which was intended to bring
an end to the refugee situation in Calais by destroying the camp and dispersing
its residents to reception centres (CAOs) across France — an operation the
authorities hailed as a “success”.
However, scores of refugees and migrants who were taken on buses to CAO
centres have now started making the journey back to the north of France.
Many of them are children whose asylum claims were rejected by the Home
Office earlier this month, and have decided to make their own way to the UK
after experiencing poor living conditions in the French centres.
One so-called “secret” camp lies on the edge of a small French village called
Norrent-Fontes, around 30 kilometres from the port of Calais.
Julien Muller, volunteer for a small French charity called Terre d’Errance which
supplies aid at the Norrent-Fontes camp, told The Independent:
“There are more and more people coming back. This week there has been
several dozen people arrive. I suppose it will grow more in the coming months.
“With the UK Government closing down its transfers of underage refugees to
the UK, there have been a lot of minors coming back.
"There are people who are clearly underage and clearly have family in the UK,
but they have been told that now it’s closed. Now they're coming back to try
make their own way...'
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