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‘Hundred migrants a week’ reach UK one year after Calais Jungle closure

About 700 migrants are sleeping rough in Calais and another 400 or so in Dunkirk
About 700 migrants are sleeping rough in Calais and another 400 or so in Dunkirk
TIMES PHOTOGRAPHER JACK HILL

Dozens of migrants are reaching Britain from northern France every week despite official claims that the crisis ended with the evacuation of the Jungle camp in Calais a year ago.

Up to 100 migrants arrive in Calais and Dunkirk each week and a similar number made it across the channel to Britain, according to Christian Salomé, chairman of L’Auberge des Migrants, a Calais charity.

Other charity workers estimated the figure to be nearer 50, although all agree that French government claims to have stopped cross-channel migration altogether are unfounded.

A few migrants reach Britain under their own steam by stowing away in lorries, while others pay smuggling gangs fees of about €3,000 a person to get across.

Although Paris claimed that the destruction of the