Calais Jungle migrants rape young female translator at knifepoint hours after Sky News team is attacked

THREE armed migrants were being hunted in Calais today after a woman was raped at knifepoint in the Jungle refugee camp.

The horrifying attack took place at around 2.30am and involved a TV crew who were shooting a documentary about child sex abuse in the notorious shantytown.

The rape victim, a 38-year-old woman from Afghanistan who cannot be named for legal reasons, was acting as an interpreter to a 42-year-old male reporter.

She was bundled to the ground and attacked as the two other assailants restrained her colleague.

Judicial sources in nearby Boulogne-sur-Mer confirmed that three UK-bound Afghans were responsible for the vicious assault, and were still at large.

The rape victim was from Paris and was working with the reporter on a journalistic project, said one of the sources.

The men initially tried to steal the journalists’ equipment and then one of them turned on the young woman.

After the rape, the pair managed to escape, and went straight to Calais police station, where they gave witness statements. The woman was then treated in hospital.

Pascal Marconville, the prosecutor in nearby Boulogne-sur-Mer told the Voix du Nord newspaper: “The victim was examined by a forensics doctor, who confirmed the rape. Samples have been taken to try to determine the genetic profile of the rapist.”

Mr Marconville confirmed that the three attackers were “still at large”, and that everything was being done to try and find them.

There are some 10,000 people currently living in the Jungle, and the vast majority are young men from war torn countries such as Afghanistan, Syria and Eritrea.

The camp is due to be razed to the ground before Christmas, and possibly as early as next week, with residents dispersed to other parts of France.

In the meantime, it remains the scene of nightly violence, as gangs of refugees attack CRS riot police, and try to stop lorries and cars heading for England, so they can get on board.

Conditions in side the camp are extremely squalid, and muggings and other crimes, including ones of a sexual nature, are commonplace.

Today’s rape comes a day after a British TV crew was attacked by a mob wielding knives and sharpened sticks.

Members of the Sky News team were injured and had a camera stolen during the incident at a petrol station close to the Jungle on Sunday night.

Sky reporter Mark Stone said: “We had been welcomed earlier by the migrants, we felt no threat.

“We spotted them and filmed briefly, but then two dozen turned up. Rocks were thrown followed by a sustained attack with knives and sticks until we reached our car – cut, bruised and without one of our cameras.

“What we experienced last night was frightening. These men are evidently violent and they’re dangerous. They wrestled us to the ground and they hit us.”
He added: “It is not unusual. It is happening here on a nightly basis.”

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