Scores of kids still wander around remains of Calais Jungle days after camp is ’emptied’ of 6,000 migrants – and vow to reach UK
YOUNG migrants were still wandering through the ruins of the Calais Jungle today.
Most of those who have been forced to leave the camp say they are more determined than ever to escape "racist" France, after being bussed to other parts of the country.
Vast numbers of unaccompanied children were reportedly still left in the dismantled camp, as they hope to reach Britain.
A young man, 18-year-old Rahmat Ahmadi, now living in Normandy at a centre for migrants after being moved from the Calais Jungle, is determined to leave France.
He said: "They lied to us migrants. They promised we would go from the jungle to a big house in a city.
"But they dumped us here in a place with no halal meat in the meals, no internet, and where we sleep ten to a bedroom and the kitchen is covered in flies.
"The cows over the fence are better cared for than us. We were tricked and we are going to walk out.
"They are racists. We don't want to stay here and will just go to a city to wait our chance to get to the UK from there."
There are now hundreds of tents pitched along Paris streets after the camp near the French and UK border was removed last week, where children and adults are sleeping.
They are desperate to find work to support those relying on them back in their home country or in the UK.
Abdul Jabarkhel, who lived in Finsbury Park, north London, for six years and has a girlfriend there he has not seen since he was deported in 2014.
He told the : "I only want to get back to England to her."
Adding: "I do not want to stay here in France. nor does any Afghan I know."
Another man living in a centre in the French countryside told of his worries for providing for the 30 relatives, mostly children, who are depending on him in Afghanistan.
In the capital, the number of people sleeping rough in Paris has risen by at least a third, since the start of the dismantling of the Calais Jungle.
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Colombe Brossel, Paris deputy mayor in charge of security issues, said: "We have seen a big increase since the start of the week. Last night, our teams counted 40 to 50 new tents there in two days.
"It's not a huge explosion in numbers but there is a clear increase. Some of them come from Calais, others from other places."
She said there are about 700 migrants sleeping rough now.
Between the Stalingrad and Jaures metro stations in Paris, migrants who spent the night camped out on the median strip of a major road, with traffic passing on either side, had scattered on Friday morning, many carrying their tents while police patrolled the centre of the boulevard.
Mustafa, 21, from Darfur, said: "There's a lot of new people here."
Ali, also from Sudan, added: "I see more people than before. People came yesterday and before yesterday from Calais."
A 24-year-old Sudanese woman Ama, who is six months pregnant, said she had come to Paris from Calais, but that was months ago.
"I was in Calais before but I did not find the route (to Britain)," she said. "I couldn't stay over there being pregnant, it was too hard."
Deputy Mayor Brossel said it was up to the central government, and not city authorities, to act.
"These people must be sheltered," she said.
Paris has plans to open two migrant centres but they would only have a total capacity of fewer than 1,000 beds.
Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said later on Friday that the Paris makeshift camp would be dismantled in the coming days.
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