Tear gas and rubber bullets in the battle to reach Britain
It was just past midnight. I heard the hollow pop of tear gas rounds being fired as I drove around the spiralling junction network on the road leading to Calais Ferry Terminal.
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The Battle of Calais 'On one roof refugees threatened to kill themselves if the police came any further, then a woman took a knife to her wrist, and people screamed'
The French government had promised there would be no bulldozers and no brutal evacuations when it came to 'clearing' the unauthorised refugee camp in Calais known as ‘The Jungle’. But when the huge convoy of Republican Security Companies (CRS) riot police trucks and a water cannon rolled across the road bridge and pulled into the southern end of camp - those assurances well and truly went up in smoke.
