Brussels finally gets tough on migrants – but only because hundreds set up camp near EU HQ: Officials clampdown on asylum seekers, saying: ‘We don’t want the Calais Jungle here’

Brussels has begun to ramp up its efforts to combat the escalating number of migrants entering the area, after fears the EU capital could become the new ‘Jungle’.
Around 50 people were arrested during the Belgian police’s first wave of checks carried out on the hundreds of refugees setting up camp in Maximilian Park in Brussels this week.
‘We want to avoid a tents camp as in Calais, the local and federal police will check more often and at different times of the day,’ said Interior minister Jan Jambon, according to local media.
He said police are now carrying out daily patrols and they are also focusing their efforts towards detecting people traffickers in the same way.
‘The police are now carrying out daily patrols in Maximilian Park, but the often migrants have disappeared because they know the police are coming. We are also trying to detect traffickers in the same way.’
‘We don’t want the Calais ‘Jungle’ in Brussels,’ Jambon told Belgium media, warning that police checks would be carried out throughout various times of the time in a bid to turn back undocumented migrants.’
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