CALAIS was shut down yesterday after a gang of 300 stone-throwing migrants stormed the port and tried to board ferries bound for Britain.
Riot police fired tear gas to keep the mob at bay and approach roads to the port were turned into a battleground.
The alarming scenes refocused attention on Britain’s inability to properly police its borders as the EU referendum campaign intensified yesterday.
It emerged that:
The UK is spending £645million to help Turkey join the EU — which would allow an estimated one million of its citizens to come to Britain.
Russian and Ukrainian migrants buy fake Romanian passports to slip into the EU.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn backs German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s plan to welcome a million migrants.
David Cameron claims his 2015 Election victory coupled with a Remain win on Thursday would give him a mandate to demand new EU reforms.
The owners of 100 small businesses are urging voters to back Brexit.
Witnesses told on Monday how gangs of migrants blocked traffic outside Calais so that they could break into lorries heading to cross-Channel ferries.
A British football fan caught up in the chaos said a mob chanting “f*** the UK” hurled rocks at his car.
They are placing objects in the road and trying to get on trucks
Calais police spokesperson
Others used social media to tell of the chaos as the French authorities sealed off the port.
One tweeted: “UK Border control Calais-side has stopped, we are all sat here waiting for cars to start flowing through. No toilets or water.”
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Braden Connolly said: “Cars are being stoned by the migrant camps in Calais.”
French police said gangs of migrants from the nearby Jungle camp had attacked the Calais ring road in waves.
Police erected barriers and fired tear gas grenades.
Several officers were injured.
Calais police said: “A group of around 300 migrants are involved in the disturbances.
“They are placing objects in the road and trying to get on trucks.”
It is thought the gangsters who run the migrant smuggling operation in Calais timed the mass attempt to reach Britain to coincide with Euro 2016 traffic and the Le Mans 24-hour rally.
Two militants from the No Borders anarchist group were arrested.
The trouble came days after migrants dived into the sea and tried to swim towards ferries that were leaving Calais bound for Dover.
Refugees at record levels
THE number of global refugees has hit a new high at 65.3million, with a rise of almost 6million during 2015, the United Nations revealed yesterday.
It said the figures mean one out of every 113 people on the planet is now either a refugee or has been forced to leave their homes within their own country.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1315538/huge-mob-of-300-migrants-storm-port-in-calais-in-violent-bid-to-smuggle-their-way-into-uk/

Riot ... Huge crowd of migrants gathers to storm Calais port

Tear gas ... An approach road to Calais port where riot police used tear gas on violent mob

Storm ... Migrants raid lorry bound for UK
Calais ‘Jungle’ migrants block motorway in violent confirmation with French Police
http://youtu.be/MDxzmzol9RI/
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* NOTE: Calasis Camp is know as JUNGLE 1. There is another that is now known as JUNGLE 2 *
Edited by
SassyEuro2
on Tue 06/21/16 10:12 AM