Blockade Calais, mayor urges townsfolk as anger rises at migrant crisis

The mayor of Calais threatened to use the town's population as a human barricade to blockade its port on Thursday night, as paramilitary police were drafted from around France in a bid to prevent increasingly desperate attempts from a growing number of migrants attempting to get to the UK. As dusk fell on a patch of scrubland a five-minute walk from the stately town hall of Calais, hundreds of migrants gathered at a soup kitchen, and said that despite the heavy police presence they would continue in their attempts to get across the Channel.

THE GUARDIAN