Tag: Calais
Faced with “state failures”, MSF will house migrants
“Around a hundred children and adolescents have been on the streets in dramatic conditions since the start of winter,” Doctors Without Borders (MSF) lamented this Tuesday. The NGO immediately announced…
Electrocuted migrant dies in freight train fire
The tragedy occurred shortly after 8 p.m. Saturday evening near Calais. Firefighters intervened to put out a fire on a freight wagon which contained paper, reports the daily la Voice…
The Eviction Observatory deplores the rise in “violence” of operations on the northern coast
The number of homeless people is increasing, as are the number of evacuations. The Observatory of evictions from informal living spaces (squats, shantytowns and camps) has just published its 5th…
Two dead and four injured hit by a truck
Two migrants died and four others were injured in a road accident near Calais, in circumstances that are still unclear, we learned this Friday from reliable sources. According to a…
More than 200 migrants rescued in 24 hours this weekend
When the rain stopped, crossing attempts resumed. More than 200 migrants were rescued in the space of 24 hours on Saturday and Sunday, while they were trying to reach England…
Calais: After a complaint from the town hall, the State announces measures to secure a closed Seveso site
The town hall’s threat bore fruit. The prefecture assured, Monday, that it had initiated the securing of a former chemical factory, Synthexim, installed for 120 years in Calais, in Pas-de-Calais.…
Will the English rob the liquor stores in Calais?
In the good old days before Brexit and the Covid-19 pandemic, the British used to replenish their liquor stocks in Calais before taking the boat back to their country. If…
In Calais, associations skeptical of London’s turn of the screw
The British Eldorado looks gray. On Tuesday, the Minister of the Interior of Her Majesty’s Government, Rishi Sunak, presented to Parliament a bill aimed at further tightening asylum conditions in…
Collapse in Lille: who was Alexandre Klein, the Calais doctor found dead? – The voice of the North
Collapse in Lille: who was Alexandre Klein, the Calais doctor found dead?The voice of the North Collapse of two buildings in Lille: a lifeless body found in the rubblefranceinfo “We…
Video: France: Whale stranded near Calais
STORY: Any rescue came too late for the Arctic beaked whale, which was stranded in northern France on Monday. Jerome Gressier, a specialist from a national non-governmental organization that investigates…