Man dies as 1500 migrants storm France-UK tunnel

Mr Sutherland urged the UK to join the common European approach to the migrant issue, warning: “Anybody who thinks that by erecting borders or fences in some way a particular state can be protected from alleged “floods” – which are anything but floods – of migrants is living in cloud cuckoo land”. 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. They are mainly from Africa and the Middle East, as regional conflicts are forcing more and more people to flee their homelands.

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. The migrants, many of whom speak some English, want to get to Britain where they believe their prospects for a job and asylum are better.

BEARDSLEY: As Britain, France and the tunnel management trade accusations about whose responsibility it is to keep the migrants from blocking access to the tunnel and creating problems for truckers and tourists, the migrants in Calais are living in squalid conditions and fighting for a better future.

One migrant was found dead yesterday, crushed to death by a lorry as he tried to get underneath a train inside the high-security zone surrounding the undersea link, according to the Mail Online.

French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said that 120 police officers will be sent to Calais to improve the Channel Tunnel’s security. Eurotunnel has intercepted 37,000 attempts since January, and nine people have died trying since June.

But just an hour earlier, Farage had used the word during an interview on ITV’s Good Morning Britain. In 2011, 4,500 migrants were discovered trying to cross into Britain from Calais.

May announced Tuesday that London would pay out an additional seven million pounds (€9.8 million) to help France secure the Eurotunnel site on its side of the Channel.

“All our security personnel, that is almost 200 people, as well as police were called in”, he added.

“We heard that one guy died and we know it’s very unsafe, but there is not another way to go the UK”, he said. The new arrivals, Debove said, would be a “burst of oxygen” to protecting the site, but he expected attempts to continue.

He said: “There was a slight knock-on effect on our service, and passengers were affected by some short delays”.

“The continuous pressure exerted every night is above and beyond that which a concessionaire can reasonably handle and requires a constructive and appropriate response from the governments”, Eurotunnel said in a statement Wednesday. Spokesman John Keefe said there was a “nightly assault” by thousands of migrants.

He said making Britain “a less easy place for illegal immigrants to stay” by restricting their ability to access bank accounts, council housing and stepping up removals would tackle the crisis.

“This is a human tragedy as well as a security issue and we are doing all that we can with the French government to stem the crisis”, said British Prime Minister David Cameron.

Theresa May, the British home secretary, acknowledged Wednesday that “a number of people” had gotten through this week but gave no specific figure.