French police routinely use excessive force against migrants in Calais: Human Rights Watch
‘Human Rights Watch (HRW) says police in France “routinely” use excessive force against the refugees, including children, in the northern town of Calais.
In a report entitled “Like Living in Hell,” the rights group said on Wednesday that police “routinely” abused hundreds of refugees in Calais to press them to leave the port town, from which they hope to make it to the United Kingdom.
The 40-page report, which was written based on interviews with some 60 refugees in the area, said police used pepper spray on refugees, both adults and children, while they were sleeping.’
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