Hollande visits Calais for first time in five years of presidency

‘French President Francois Hollande has demanded that the notorious Calais camp in northern France be dismantled where thousands of refugees living in squalid conditions hope to reach Britain.
Hollande paid a visit on Monday to the northern port of Calais for the first time in his five-year as president. He was to meet port officials, police and local politicians but was not expected to visit the camp itself.
The Calais camp is known as the “Jungle” due to the appalling living conditions of asylum seekers there. Between 7,000 and 10,000 people are massed in the “Jungle,” some for months, in the hope of a passage to Britain by human traffickers.’
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