France denounces what it calls (Wall of Shame)

Calais (AFP)

Works began on Tuesday to build a wall intended to prevent immigrants wishing to relocate to Britain access to the port city of Calais northern France.

This wall will be built along the kilometer will reach a height of four meters and will pass within a few hundred meters from the camp for immigrants random charities it says it receives more than 10,000 people.

The wall will be an extension of the fences that have been developed since the middle of August / August 2015 to protect the site and the Channel Tunnel with a length of 39 kilometers, as well as the port and the road leading to him (30 km).

Britain will pay 2.7 million euros (three million dollars) for the construction of the wall.

The reason Calais camp tension between France and Britain, the main destination for most immigrants who gather there.

Immigrants sometimes used tree branches to set up barriers to slow the truck flying to Britain and then the speed climb and hide them while passing through the Channel Tunnel.

- The closure of the camp called "the jungle" -

French Interior Minister Bernard Kaznov announced that the camp would be closed rampant this month, but he said that would be done in stages.

Calais residents and requiring the government to set a date for the removal of the camp altogether.

Local authorities say that the wall also aims to discourage smugglers from exercising their activities in the vicinity of the camp random.

And it will prove slabs of reinforced concrete and metal Bdaaim allowing dismantled if there is no longer need him.

The head of the Board of Directors of the port of Calais, Jean-Marc Bojseso earlier this month that "this wall will prevent the immigrants from the invasion of the highway all night." "They are putting the trunks of trees and branches and the gas bottles on the roads to stop the truck."

"We can not continue to accept these repeated attacks."

He joined more than a thousand people since August to Calais residents who number increased to 10,000 according to the two charities.

But the French authorities do not agree with the figures published by the associations active in the camp it indicates that the number was up to 19 August 6900 / August.

"To Oberg de Magran" Society and the French organization "HELP Rivuogiz" British non-governmental reports that the bulk of migrants from Sudan, which make up 43% of them, while 33% comes from Afghanistan, and 9% from Eritrea, and 7% of Pakistan.

Charities also noted a disturbing increase in the number of minors in the camp to 1179, mostly unaccompanied minor, the youngest eight years old.