Jiří Valter

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The Police moved in shortly after dawn to clear the camp on Tuesday

French police have begun to evacuate an operation to cross a gymnasium, and a tent camp near the Northern port of Dunkirk in the midst of a rise in migrants trying to the channel.

about 1,000 people, many of them Iraqi Kurds, living on the Grande Synthesizer-site.

The Gym was available to search for migrants protection, the city in the past year.

Now a court has ordered The Gym migrants to be closed due to local complaints.

There are fears that all of this calls for a further increase in the number of crossings to England.

On the weekend, 41 people were stopped, in three small boats and a kayak by the British border guards, and 86 were intercepted a week ago from the UK Border Force . A further 29 migrants were stopped, as you in the direction of the Kent coast on Monday.

To Calais, Dunkirk is one of the closest French ports on the English coast, and authorities had already. moved in to clear the camp in October 2018 at just under 1800 people who lived there

In The Gym migrants in December 2018 opening was the original target, to close it in the spring, but by August 2019 170 people were housed there, and a further 800 were in tents in the vicinity.

the French authorities also removed an area outside of Calais Last Friday .

What happened on Tuesday?

gendarmes and police officers moved to 08:00 (06:00 GMT), almost two weeks after a judge in Lille, decided that the camp was a threat to public safety. The judgment cited, smugglers and criminal networks in the Grande Synthesizer, as well as fights and violence.

the people seen, the driven on the Bus during The Morning . Reports said The Migrants was divided in families, unaccompanied minors and others. Officials said Most of them are driven to shelters in the whole of the North-West of France .

Most of The Migrants in the Grande-Synthesizer have been living in tents outside of The Gym

"I think everyone here was glad to Get Out of the slums, the Grande became a Synthesizer," said the local prefect Michel Lalande. "We will bring to an end to it This Morning , and this is good news for the rule of law and Human Rights . "

"you should know that when you ask for asylum in France , you have to get an 80% chance of" Dunkirk Official Éric, Étienne said La Voix du Nord.

'UK seen as a Promised Land "

Lesley Ashmall, BBC Radio 5 Live

people, the smugglers have the camp infiltrated, and that is the reason why the French authorities want it to be closed.

Last Night , we had access inside the camp and saw the smuggler to walk around in the open, by the temporary shops, which try, people to seduce and pay the money to them on ships and Trucks in the United Kingdom.

Early in The Morning , hundreds of police officers were here, along with large, empty buses.

pots and pans was empty of people in the camp

All buses have now left and it is now cancelled some of the tents. Cleaners have moved, but it is a huge task on such a large camp.

the people in the camp Last Night , seemed undeterred, and some saw England as the Promised Land . There are migrant camps, the think all in the North of France , and charities, they will simply go somewhere else. Those that I have spoken, including families with small children, said she would only try.

an estimated 1,000 people, crossed the channel in small boats this year, and the French and British officials are concerned about the involvement of smugglers lead people, you have to leave, because of the UK government, the commitment to leave the European Union up to 31. October.

"Every Day you try to cross with the boat, very little boats, and it is very dangerous, but the Mafia always takes a lot of money," said welfare Claudette Hannebicque, who believes the UK's EU-exit has an impact on the numbers attempting to cross the channel.

"Sometimes The Police is here to arrest the Mafia , or put you in jail. But here there is a "small Mafia " - the big Big Boss is not here," she told BBC Radio 5 Live .

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Source of news: bbc.com