One dead as 1500 migrants storm Eurotunnel

Conservative MP for Folkestone, Damian Collins, said: “This investment is very welcome, it doesn’t address the whole problem”.

The death was the ninth among migrants in Calais since June 1, the France Info website reported.

“It can get pretty disgusting”, she says, adding that many migrants now carry small bottles of saline solution in case teargas is used against them.

Debove said about 1,000 migrants had been waiting around the Eurotunnel site and had repeatedly cut fences.

Police confirmed it was the biggest attempt to make the unsafe journey to Britain in recent weeks.

Britain has agreed to spend an extra £7 million to tackle the Calais migrant crisis amid criticism of its handling of the tunnel invasions.

Prime Minister David Cameron has described the situation as “very concerning” while the Ms May was due to chair an emergency Cobra meeting on Wednesday morning.

It’s believed that this summer eight migrants have tried while trying to reach Britain this way while AFP report that around 3000 migrants are camped there.

In commenting on the measures that the British and French governments had taken to deal with the migrant crisis, Keith Best told RT that the French had recently made changes to their immigration laws that reduced the period of consideration for asylum requests from two years to nine months.

“He was hit by a lorry which was preparing to drive on to the train, and is thought to have died instantly, ‘ said a police source in Calais, who said “hundreds of officers” were involved in a second night of ‘massive intrusions”.

The French Minister of Interior repeated Eurotunnel’s version of, saying that about 2,000 migrants disrupted the tunnel – “the most important attempt over the past month and a half”.

“We need to ensure that we’re dealing with the bad criminal gangs, the people smugglers, who are leading to many people making a profit out of the human misery of many people”.

The Eurotunnel company itself is seeking €9.7 million from the British and French governments in compensation for disruption caused by illegal migrants.

“In this context, Eurotunnel and its employees, who hold to their task despite the psychological pressure that weighs on them, continue to guarantee a rapid and safe Channel crossing for its millions of customers”.

“They have allowed people willingly to break into the Channel Tunnel site”.

In a statement it said: “The port and the ferry operators are together working hard to serve all customers travelling to and from the continent”.

Richard Burnett, chief executive of the Road Haulage Association, called for French troops to be deployed, adding that the situation was “obviously now beyond the capabilities of the French police”.