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    Police are accused of POISONING migrants at Calais by contaminating water supplies with tear gas in a bid to stop a new build-up of asylum seekers heading for Britain

    Leading charity in Calais claims two jerrycans were full of contaminated water

    Auberge des Migrants claim it was a move to stop migrants gathering in the town

    An investigation is underway but local police have denied any wrong-doing

    Notorious 'Jungle' refugee camp was destroyed last October, with some 8000 migrants dispersed to other parts of France

    By Peter Allen In Paris for MailOnline

    PUBLISHED: 09:50 BST, 12 July 2017 | UPDATED: 14:19 BST, 12 July 2017

    Police have been accused of poisoning migrants at Calais by contaminating water supplies with tear gas in a bid to stop a new build-up of asylum seekers.

    The Auberge des Migrants (Migrant Shelter) – a leading charity in the French port town – sparked outrage after tweeting a photo of two jerrycans allegedly full of contaminated water.

    Witnesses said officers had directed some of their tear gas supplies into a supply of water set aside for the migrants so as to prevent them gathering.

    An investigation is underway but police have denied any wrong-doing.


    The Auberge des Migrants (Migrant Shelter) – a leading charity in Calais – sparked outrage after
    tweeting a photo of two jerrycans allegedly full of contaminated water



    The notorious 'Jungle' refugee camp in Calais was destroyed last October, and some 8000 migrants
    dispersed to other parts of France


    'The authorities are poisoning the migrants' water in Calais with tear gas,' reads L'Auberge's tweeted message alongside the picture, adding: 'The struggle against fixation points. That's it.'

    'Fixation points' is police jargon for areas where migrants are building up, and their job is to try and stop them.

    A spokesman for L'Auberge said the picture was taken on May 25 by a volunteer working for Utopia 56, another aid organisation.

    Referred to only by her first name of Charlotte, she told Liberation newspaper: 'Two Afghans brought the empty cans to me.


    'One of them had a sip, and suffered mild irritation. When they realised the water was not drinkable, they threw it away. Over three weeks, I heard three similar testimonies.'

    Numerous volunteers said they saw the police poisoning the water which had been collected in the cans from stand pipes and friendly residents in Calais.

    This evidence has already been passed on to an examining magistrate in nearby Lille, who is investigating claims of police brutality.

    It is also claimed that the tear gas tactic was used to make supplies of charity food inedible, although there are no pictures of this.


    In June, Jacques Toubon, France's Defender of Rights, agreed there has been 'exceptionally serious
    infringements of fundamental rights' carried out by the police in Calais


    In June, Jacques Toubon, France's Defender of Rights, agreed there has been 'exceptionally serious infringements of fundamental rights' carried out by the police in Calais.

    In turn, the police have denied any wrongdoing, with a senior National Police officer saying: 'On one hand we're meant to stop any build up of migrants, and on the other we have to act like humanitarians, making sure everybody is safe and well.

    'Our present orders are very strict ones – there can be no more migrant camps in Calais. This is the reason we get so much criticism.
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    All of use deny any brutality or violence of any kind. We are under huge pressure, and are just trying to do our job properly. We are massively overstretched.'

    During an emergency meeting to Calais last month, Interior Minister Gerard Collomb took care to express 'absolute support' to the forces of law and order.

    He said that police in Calais were displaying 'a lot of humanity' under conditions 'that are not always easy'.

    Mr Collomb said he objected to those who presented 'the aggressive gendarmes' on one hand and 'on the other migrants of legendary sweetness'.
    The notorious 'Jungle' refugee camp in Calais was destroyed last October, and some 8000 migrants dispersed to other parts of France.

    But some are slowly returning, with charities saying that up to 1000 are now trying to set up camps as they plan their illegal journeys to the coast of England in lorries, or trains.


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    So disgusting...they need to start sending them back.

    They are destroying our beautiful cities.
    ILLEGAL ALIENS HAVE "BROKEN" OUR IMMIGRATION SYSTEM

    DO NOT REWARD THEM - DEPORT THEM ALL

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    In June, Jacques Toubon, France's Defender of Rights, agreed there has been 'exceptionally serious infringements of fundamental rights' carried out by the police in Calais.
    Kick them all out - no one is entitled to "squat" wherever they want to - they are illegally present in a formed county and should be removed. Still having babies too. Send them home to their countries.

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    And look at the mess they create. Oh my God. Send them all back where they came from.
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