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First Bus With Migrants Leaves Calais Camp Ahead of Planned Demolition

© AFP 2023 / FRANCOIS LO PRESTI Migrants walks through the "Jungle" migrant camp in Calais, northern France, on October 22, 2016
Migrants walks through the Jungle migrant camp in Calais, northern France, on October 22, 2016 - Sputnik International
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First bus with migrants left Calais camp in northern France for accommodation centers, as planned demolition of the site begins later on Monday, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported.

Migrants with suitcases leave the Jungle migrant camp, as part of a major three-day operation planned to clear the camp of its estimated 6,000-8,000 occupants, in Calais, northern France, on October 24, 2016 - Sputnik International
Migrants Start Abandoning Calais Camp Ahead of Planned Demolition
CALAIS (Sputnik) It is expected that a total of 60 buses, each carrying 50 migrants, will leave Calais camp on Monday.

Earlier in the day, dozens of migrants, who wanted to move to other accommodation centers for refugees in France, started gathering at a special hangar in the camp, where they were divided into four groups: men, unaccompanied children, families and vulnerable persons.

On September 24, French President Francois Hollande called on the authorities of Calais to shut down the refugee camp, notorious due to appalling living conditions, with inadequate hygiene facilities, poor security and a lack of basic services, and to relocate refugees to other centers across the country.

Thousands of migrants from the Middle East and North Africa are living in the so-called Jungle – notorious for its horrible living conditions, located not far from the Channel Tunnel, in hopes of reaching the United Kingdom. The remaining part of the camp is to be closed before the end of October, after the main section was dismantled in March.

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