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Calais crisis: Migrants exploit strike chaos as port and tunnel closed
telegraph.co.uk ^ | 8:55PM BST 23 Jun 2015 | Tom Whitehead, David Barrett, Harriet Alexander, Henry Samuel in Calais and Steven Swinford

Posted on 06/23/2015 4:28:43 PM PDT by BenLurkin

Illegal migrants desperate to get in to Britain have exploited the closing of Calais and travel chaos on both sides of the Channel.

Thousands of migrants who have massed at the French port used a wildcat strike by French ferry workers to try and clamber on to Britain-bound lorries that were left queuing for hours.

By late afternoon, hundreds of migrants lined junction 42 of the A16 motorway, the main entrance for cars and lorries taking the Eurotunnel to the UK, approaching trucks in small groups and trying to board by all possible means.

Vastly outnumbered by the migrants, riot police did their best to keep them at bay and away from the lorries, hundreds of which were stuck in a huge tailback due to the closure of the Channel tunnel.

The lorries were either stationary or moving at a snail’s pace as trains started to run once more after the day’s industrial action.

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TOPICS: United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: calais; channel; france; tunnel

1 posted on 06/23/2015 4:28:43 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

tailback?


2 posted on 06/23/2015 4:40:33 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)
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To: BenLurkin

muslims right?


3 posted on 06/23/2015 4:47:48 PM PDT by shalom aleichem
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To: shalom aleichem

islamist invaders


4 posted on 06/23/2015 5:06:08 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: onedoug

make em swim and loose the sharks and pirana


5 posted on 06/23/2015 5:19:34 PM PDT by shalom aleichem
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To: Paladin2

Traffic jam.


6 posted on 06/23/2015 5:24:38 PM PDT by moose07 (Islam and the New Stone age: A book i've not yet written.)
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