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    The Latest: French wall going up to stop UK-bound migrants

    The Latest: French wall going up to stop UK-bound migrants

    Updated 11:20 am, Tuesday, September 20, 2016



    Photo: Zoltan Gergely Kelemen, AP Hungarian and Polish soldiers and policemen patrol the Hungarian-Serbian border near Roszke, 180 kms
    southeast ofBudapest, Hungary, Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2016. Two days earlier forty-nine Polish officers, ... more




    ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The Latest on Europe's response to the influx of refugees and migrants (all times local):

    9:00 p.m.
    After weeks of preparation, workers have begun building a 4-meter (13-foot) high wall in northern France to try to keep migrants from sneaking onto ferries crossing the English Channel.

    The kilometer-long (0.6 mile-long) wall is the latest barrier against thousands of migrants living in a makeshift camp near the port town of Calais.

    Many of the migrants desperate to get into Britain slip onto trucks that board the ferries or trains that traverse the channel through a tunnel.

    A high barbed-wire fence already protects the port area. Britain is paying to erect the wall, which will be covered with plants for aesthetics.

    Critics of the wall note that France plans to dismantle the makeshift camp by the time the wall is expected to be completed at the end of the year.
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    6:15 p.m.
    Human Rights Watch says Hungary should investigate allegations that uniformed officers are mistreating refugees caught near its southern border and sent back to Serbia.

    The group's allegations have been rejected by the Hungarian government.

    Human Rights Watch said in a report released Tuesday that Hungary's policy of letting only a handful of refugees a day file asylum requests has stranded hundreds at the border, including vulnerable people like families with children and the sick or elderly. It also reiterated its criticism of new regulations which since July 5 allow officers to send back across the border fence migrants and refugees caught within eight kilometers (five miles) of the barrier.

    HRW researcher Lydia Gall says that "making vulnerable asylum seekers suffer needlessly in miserable conditions without legal justification is simply wrong."

    4:25 p.m.
    Police from Slovakia will join Serbian patrols on the border with Bulgaria to help stem the influx of migrants trying to reach western Europe through the Balkans.

    Serbia's Interior Ministry said in a statement on Tuesday that some 15 Slovak police officers will arrive next month. The statement says Serbian and Slovak interior ministers have signed a memorandum in Bratislava, Slovakia.

    Serbia has beefed up police and army troops on borders with Macedonia and Bulgaria to secure them from migrant entry. Thousands of migrants already have been stuck in the Balkan country looking for ways to cross into the EU nations Hungary and Croatia.

    Migrants fleeing war and poverty have been using clandestine routes since countries along the so-called Balkan route closed down their borders for free entry in March.
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    12:55 p.m.
    Germany's top security official has called on Islamic groups in the country to help integrate hundreds of thousands of newly arrived Muslim migrants.

    Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere says mosques and Muslim associations have a responsibility to contribute to Germany's effort to teach migrants the language and abide by the country's laws and customs.

    De Maiziere said Tuesday that failure to do so "will be much harder for Islam to be accepted in Germany."

    Many of the hundreds of thousands of migrants who arrived in Germany since the start of 2015 came seeking refuge from conflicts in Muslim-majority nations such as Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.

    De Maiziere acknowledged that Germany has been tested by the influx but insisted that it had done well "by international comparison."
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    12:50 p.m.
    Authorities of the island of Lesbos are calling for the immediate evacuation of thousands of refugees to the Greek mainland after a fire gutted a detention camp following protests.

    Regional governor Christiana Kalogirou said Tuesday she had repeatedly warned the government that camps on the east Aegean Sea islands were dangerously overcrowded.

    More than 4,000 people were housed at the camp at Moria on Lesbos where fire which broke out Monday destroyed or damaged tents and trailers. There were no reports of any migrants being injured.

    The government is expected to charter a passenger ferry to provide temporary accommodation while the camp is repaired.

    The Latest: French wall going up to stop UK-bound migrants - seattlepi.com

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    Migrants Bound for Calais Port Battle French Police


    September 21, 2016 5:48 PM
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    French riot police stand guard at the entrance to "the Jungle" as dozens of migrants try to storm trucks that are heading toward the ferry terminal in Calais, France, Sept. 21, 2016.

    CALAIS, FRANCE — Hundreds of migrants trying to make their way to Britain from Calais in northern France clashed with French riot police on Wednesday, Reuters witnesses and police said.

    Police used tear-gas grenades and led charges to disperse migrants trying to make their way to the approach road for Calais port.

    The clashes took place not far from where a British-financed wall is being built to seal off the road, where migrants frequently try to jump on trucks bound for Britain.

    Earlier on Wednesday, former President Nicolas Sarkozy was in Calais campaigning to return to the presidency in an election in April, promising to be particularly tough on immigration.

    Sarkozy, who signed an agreement in 2003 that effectively put the British border on mainland France, said during the visit it was not up to France "to be England's border guards," and he called for the deal to be renegotiated.

    Under the current arrangement, thousands of migrants fleeing war or poverty in the Middle East, Africa and Asia have built a shanty town near Calais known as "the Jungle," which French authorities are currently dismantling.

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    The Battle of Calais: Police use tear gas to repel 300 migrants as they try to storm a road leading to the French port

    Police clashed with 300 migrants today on a road leading to port of Calais

    One police officer suffered an injured shoulder and one migrant arrested

    It comes as work begins on £2 million half-a-mile long wall outside Calais

    There are an estimated 10,000 migrants still living in 'the Jungle' camp


    Read more: French police use tear gas to repel 300 refugees as they storm Calais port | Daily Mail Online


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    Calais: Truck swerves as migrants try to slow lorries

    21 September 2016 Last updated at 20:50 BST

    Migrants are seen putting obstacles in the road, causing a lorry to swerve, on a Calais motorway, near to the new wall being built.

    Calais: Truck swerves as migrants try to slow lorries - BBC News


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