Migrants holed up in northern France made
fewer attempts to get to England via the
Channel Tunnel in the early hours of Saturday
police said ,suggesting beefed up security
is having an impact,
Police counted several hundred bids to
enter the premises of the Eurotunnel terminal
in the French port city of Calais ,down
significantly from the roughly 2,300 attempts
registered the night before,
Authorities arrested around 300 of the
roughly 800-1,000 migrants estimated to
be present at the site,
Eurotunnel did not give precise figures
but acknowledged the night had been
quieter than the previous nights,
Traffic through the tunnel,which had been
severely disrupted the previous day ,was
barely affected,
Early Thursday morning ,there were no
reported delays on either side of the Channel
Tunnel on what is expected to be a busy
day at peak European holiday season.
Police intercepted the vast majority of the
few hundred migrants who did attempt to
penetrate the Eurotunnel premises without
violence,said an AFP reporter on the scene.
Some organised a sit-in to try to block shuttles
exiting the tunnel.
The crisis in Calais has spiked in intensity in
the past few days,with upwards of 2000
desperate bids to sneak into the tunnel to get
to Britain--seen as an Eldorado " for migrants.
One man died in the early hours of Wednesday
apparently crushed by a lorry as he tried to
make it into the tunnel.
The morning crisis sparked concern from both
France and Britain ,with both governments
announced emergency measures.
France 's interior minister sent 120 additional
police officers to the scene on a temporary basis.
while London said it would provide an extra
seven million pounds (9.8 million euros)
to help beef up security on the French side
of the border---AFP
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