More police at Calais freight tunnel as hundreds of migrants gather

Local police and tunnel security said hundreds of migrants had scaled fences around the Coquelles terminal in northern France and attempted to smuggle themselves on board vehicles.

At least one migrant died early Wednesday after being hit by a truck.

“There’s also the issue that the industry will be looking for more cold storage because they can’t export their seafood they will have to freeze it and store it until they can get the markets open again”. People are losing their life.

Henry called for the creation of a joint Franco-British asylum bureau in Calais, so that migrants demanding to stay in the countries could receive better attention.

No data exits on how many total migrants are crossing – or making it – to England. 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.

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

By Wednesday night, a police helicopter hovered overhead and gendarmes in flak jackets turned back about two dozen. “Every time we try the police catch up”.

Natacha Bouchart, mayor of Calais, has called for a summit involving ministers from France and Britain, Eurotunnel, the ports, and the municipality of Calais.

It said it had “discretely intercepted more than 37,000 migrants, who have been handed over to the law enforcement authorities” since January.

The man is actually the ninth to die while trying to clear the tunnel in just the last two months.

Meanwhile, a 16-year-old Egyptian youth is in a critical condition in hospital in Paris after being electrocuted on the roof of a Eurostar train leaving the Gare du Nord.

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

The issue has been a thorn in the side of Franco-British relations for many years. “Calais is a reflection of the conflicts and the crises that are tearing apart some regions of the world”.

She added that there had been migrants trying to get into the Eurotunnel before the security fences were strengthened.

“I want to meet family there, he’s waiting (for) me, you know”, said the young man, who traveled across the Mediterranean on a boat from Libya.

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.

Desperate men… migrants walk on the railway as they attempt to access the Channel Tunnel. In a tweet, Eurotunnel said passenger trains were delayed an hour because of the overnight activity.

“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 (British and French) governments”, Eurotunnel said in a statement.

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

Authorities must “target and disrupt the organized criminal gangs who profit from their fellow humans’ misery”, she said.

“This is very concerning”, he told reporters during a visit to Singapore, adding that “we are working very closely” with French authorities to address the situation.

Until Wednesday, 60 French police officers guarded the site, along with Eurotunnel security crews. The new arrivals, Debove said, would be a “burst of oxygen” to protecting the site, but he expected attempts to continue.