Eurotunnel: 37000 migrant crossing attempts blocked

Numerous migrants originate from Syria and Iraq, where people say they are trying to escape the four-year civil war, starvation and human rights abuses. “The UK government is being very careful to ensure they don’t come to Britain and then the country responsible would be France“.

Many British officials have expressed growing alarm at what they see as a potential influx of foreigners, although it’s not clear how many people have successfully made the passage.

It said it had “discretely intercepted more than 37 000 migrants, who have been handed over to the law enforcement authorities” since January. Others were led away in the darkness, including a small group retrieved from a ditch by a single watchman wielding little more than a flashlight.

Opposition leaders accused the premier of employing dehumanizing language about people who have gathered near Calais in northern France in the hope of getting to Britain illegally through the Channel Tunnel.

“It’s a shame, I like the job and like travelling, but every time you leave France to get back to the UK it is really nasty”. Those caught on the in British side may be detained while their applications for asylum are considered. Another from Egypt was critically injured after being electrocuted in Paris at the Gare du Nord train station after trying to leap from a train roof and board a Eurostar headed to the United Kingdom.

There were conflicting numbers of people involved Wednesday, ranging from 150 to as many as 1,200.

The home secretary said new fencing was urgently being installed in Calais.

“All our security personnel, that is almost 200 people, as well as police were called in”, he added. The UN Foundation is working to end conflict in zones of unrest all around the world, and you can help. On Monday, the night before this incident, almost 2,000 migrants tried to cross the tunnel – the largest crossing yet.

One migrant was crushed to death Wednesday during an attempt to breach security.

Anti-EU parties on both sides of the Channel have seized on the drama to insist that national borders be better defended. Hundreds of lorries are parked along the motorway leading to the port of Dover and the British tunnel terminal in what police have called “Operation Stack”. Passenger service was also delayed.

“The pressure exerted every night is above and beyond that which a concessionaire can reasonably handle and requires an appropriate response from the governments”, he added.

Spokesman John Keefe said there was a “nightly assault” by thousands of migrants.

On his part, the firm’s CEO, Jacques Gounon, said his organization was up against “systematic, massive, maybe even organized invasions”.

“We’ll do everything we can to work with the French to bring these things to a conclusion”, British Prime Minister David Cameron told reporters, while speaking in Singapore earlier this week.

“We heard that one guy died and we know it’s very risky, but there is not another way to go the UK”, he said.

Britain has agreed to provide additional funding of up to 7 million pounds (10.9 million U.S. dollars) to increase security at the Channel Tunnel railhead at Coquelles.

After Wednesday’s fatal incident, Eurotunnel has stated that migrants have already been removed from the site.

They are camped at a makeshift site known as the “new jungle” near the entrance to the tunnel linking the two countries.