Tensions ramp up at the 'Jungle' refugee camp as demo day nears


Migrants and refugees clashed with French police in a Calais camp amid rising tensions ahead of the camp's closure next week.

Police fired tear gas at migrants and refugees after stones were thrown at them.

French police used tear gas in Calais to disperse migrants and refugees who were throwing stones into their direction.

The group of mostly Afghan men were throwing stones across a fence leading up to the highway, from a former part of the camp that had already been dismantled earlier in the year.

French authorities have said they plan to relocate the 6,486 people still staying at the camp to reception centers across the country or abroad as a "humanitarian" operation.

But aid workers in the port town of Calais expressed worry over a lack of information ahead of Tuesday's scheduled dismantling.

The closure of the remaining camp is expected to last a week.

There are several thousand migrants from the Mideast and Africa believed to live in the camp, which is a magnet for migrants seeking to reach Britain and a symbol of Europe's migrant crisis.

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