Arsonists torch hostel set to receive migrants from Calais

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Arsonists torch hostel set to receive migrants from Calais – as French police closing down the Jungle clash with refugees after officials run out of buses to transport them


Arsonists have torched a hostel set up to receive migrants from Calais as French police closing down the Jungle camp clashed with refugees when officials ran out of buses to transport them.

Riot police were involved in a tense stand-off with migrants as authorities tried to empty the squalid encampment in northern France this afternoon.

Hundreds of migrants are waiting to be transported to new accommodation around the country.

But in a sign of rising tensions over the operation, one of the reception centres earmarked for housing refugees was set on fire at Loubeyrat, in Puy-de-Dome, central France.

The vacant building's entrance and lobby was damaged in the attack which took place between Sunday night and Monday morning and an investigation is underway.

A statement from the local prefecture said: 'The Government strongly condemns this act which, apart from being criminal and dangerous, violates the republican values of France which offer refuge to people fleeing war and persecution. It is a duty which we cannot escape.'

It comes as pictures emerged of police in Calais battling to hold back a crowd of migrants and as authorities launched a three-day bid to clear the Jungle camp.

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Riot police were involved in a tense stand-off with migrants as authorities tried to empty the squalid encampment in northern France this afternoon

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Pictures emerged of police in Calais battling to hold back a crowd of migrants as authorities launched a three-day bid to clear the Jungle camp

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In a sign of rising tensions over the operation, one of the reception centres earmarked for housing refugees was set on fire at Loubeyrat, in Puy-de-Dome, central France

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The vacant building's entrance and lobby was damaged in the attack which took place between Sunday night and Monday morning and an investigation is underway


This morning, the operation was on the verge of stopping after authorities 'ran out of buses' - with migrants told to go back to the camp and try again tomorrow.

More than one thousand migrants, wrapped up against the cold and with their meagre possessions packed in suitcases, began queuing before dawn to be transferred from the camp this morning on the first day of the operation to clear the sprawling shanty town.

The migrants are being divided into four groups for families, single men, unaccompanied minors and other people considered vulnerable before taking one of 60 buses waiting to take them to 451 shelters nationwide.



But just hours after the operation started, there were reports this morning that French authorities did not have enough buses to take away all of those who had been processed - with many simply told they would have to try again tomorrow.

It comes just hours after riot police came under attack from migrants with stones hurled at police and items set on fire.

On the eve of the long-awaited operation to tear down the squalid camp, defiant migrants said they were staying put and would continue trying to get to Britain.

And as their protests turned violent, French police issued an extraordinary statement saying anarchists from a UK-based group have infiltrated the camp and are planning to disrupt the operation.

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The Calais jungle clearance was on the verge of stopping this morning after authorities 'ran out of buses' with migrants told to go back to the camp and try again tomorrow. Migrants are pictured boarding buses for transportation to reception centres across France as part of a major three-day operation

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More than one thousand migrants began queuing before dawn to be transferred from the camp this morning on the first day of the operation to clear the sprawling shanty town

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Just hours after the operation started, there were reports this morning that French authorities did not have enough buses to take away all of those who had been processed - with many simply told they would have to try again tomorrow

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Migrants were today required to present themselves at a temporary bus depot where they could choose between two regions in France where they will be transferred

 

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French President Francois Hollande announced last month that the camp will close before winter, with its estimated 6,500 inhabitants dispersed around the country. Migrants were fitted with coloured wristbands at a processing centre today

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Migrants, carrying their luggage, walk past the Calais city limit sign as they leave during the full evacuation of the Jungle

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This morning, crowds of migrants waited in line to be processed at a registration camp. A group of several dozen migrant 'children' tried to jump the queue to be processed

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Flames raged in the Calais Jungle camp and police shot tear gas canisters into crowds of migrants amid clashes on the eve of plans to dismantle the settlement

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This migrant is seen walking through the smoke in the camp amid chaos tonight, likely to continue well into tomorrow


French police last night admitted there was a 'high risk' of violent opposition from UK-based anti-capitalist group No Borders against the move to clear the Jungle.

In a statement, they said an exclusion zone had been created in the camp because of fears 'hard-Left activists' were planning attacks.

They referred to an incident in March when the south side of the Jungle was cleared and 100 protesters descended on the camp, adding: 'Considering activists from hard-Left group No Borders have arrived in the Calais area and have set up home in squats, there is a high risk the activists have penetrated the camp with a view to influencing the migrants as they did in March.'

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French authorities will spend three days processing people who live in the camp before spending the rest of the week bulldozing the area

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Migrants lugging meagre belongings boarded buses Monday taking them away from Calais' Jungle under a French plan to raze the notorious camp and symbol of Europe's refugee crisis.

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The notorious Jungle migrant camp on the outskirts of the French port of Calais has for years been a key staging post for migrants trying to smuggle across the Channel to Britain on lorries or trains

 

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Scores of Sudanese and Eritrean men queued in the pre-dawn cold outside a hangar where they were later sorted into groups and put on coaches for shelters across France

Protest: A masked Iranian migrant with his lips sewn together protests against the dismantling of the Jungle camp

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Migrants were pictured lining up at the Jungle in Calais this morning ahead of being bussed to other parts of the country

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Refugees carrying their belonging arrive before being registered at a processing centre in the makeshift Jungle migrant camp

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On the move: Migrants gathered and waited in line to be processed at a registration centre in the camp this morning

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A migrant jumps over the fence of the short term welcome centre in the Jungle during its evacuation and dismantlement

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Refugees were seen passing suitcases over a fence at the short term welcome centre in Calais


Riot police have been dispersed around the camp, not just deal with the problems of dispersal but to guard against attempts by British anarchists and smugglers intent on causing trouble as the refugees are moved out.

Pierre-Henry Brandet, spokesman for the Ministry of the Interior told Le Point: 'They are needed to secure the area. There are No Borders and smugglers whose interests lie only in defeating the operation.'

Christian Salome, president of the charity Immigrant Shelter, said there had already been violent skirmishes.

'People have come for the violence,' he said. 'No Borders attack anyone, and we've already had some injuries.

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A migrant with a Manchester City scarf carries a suitcase on his shoulder as he makes his way to a processing centre

 

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A coach carrying migrants leaves after they registered at a processing centre in the jungle near Calais, northern France

Migrants receive identity bracelets as they wait to board a bus for their evacuation next to the makeshift camp 'the Jungle'

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The closure of the Jungle is aimed at ending months of tensions in the Calais area, where clashes between police and migrants trying to climb onto trucks heading to Britain are a near nightly occurrence

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Hours before the evacuation got under way some migrants were still clinging to hopes of a new life across the Channel, believing their chances of finding a job and integrating there to be better

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The migrants are being divided into four groups for families, single men, unaccompanied minors and other people considered vulnerable before taking one of 60 buses waiting Monday to take them to 451 shelters nationwide


'They remind me of the people who go to football matches to fight with the police. It's the same thing – people come for the violence, and have nothing to do with the phenomenon of migration.'

It was also reported last night that members of No Borders were seen walking around with walkie-talkies co-ordinating the violence.

This morning, crowds of migrants waited in line to be processed at a registration camp. A group of several dozen migrant 'children' tried to jump the queue to be processed.

The gang of mostly Afghan youths formed a line next to gates of the warehouse being used as a processing centre.

The youngsters - some with moustaches and stubble - pushed through the crowd, claiming they were 'bambino', the jungle slang for unaccompanied minors.

One shouted: 'We are bambino let us go to England.'


However French riot police refused to let them go first and ordered all migrants to join the sane queue.


Many former Jungle residents - mainly African migrants from Sudan - were resigned that their chance to reach the UK in the back if a lorry or hidden on a train was over.

Among them was Abdul 26 from the war-torn Darfur region. He told MailOnline: 'I have left the Jungle. Life is too hard in the Jungle. I will go to one if the new centres in France.

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Aid workers were advising refugees and migrants to register for the buses together as they believe this will give certain groups of friends or communities the best chance of not being separated. A further 85 buses were expected to arrive on Tuesday and Wednesday as the mass eviction continues

Some 60 government-organised buses were expected to take thousands of the camp's residents to temporary reception centres where they will have to claim asylum in France within a set period of time or face deportation
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Buses could be seen parked up at the camp as authorities prepared to move migrants too other parts of the country

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