French police bulldoze immigrant camp near Calais

French police bulldoze immigrant camp near Calais
"French police razed a squalid camp used by illegal immigrants in scrubland near the English Channel port of Calais on Tuesday, using backhoes and buzz saws to clear away the precarious dwellings of a fragile population, mostly Afghan minors, who were led away stunned and sometimes sobbing.
The destruction of the site - known as 'the Jungle' - ends the migrants' dreams of a new life across the Channel in Britain but signifies what France hopes will be a new era in European immigration control. People who lived there tried night after night to sneak across the Channel.
'The law of the jungle cannot last eternally,' said Immigration Minister Eric Besson, who ordered the destruction of what he called 'a lawless zone where smugglers reign.'"