"We've had no answers, so we're blocking things up," said Frederic Van Gansbeke, who represents businesses and shop-owners in Calais. Migrants from the "Jungle" often create their own road blocks to slow trucks heading for Britain, seen as an El Dorado. Businesses in the town of Calais, once a thriving tourist resort, have long complained of the impact of the squalid Jungle camp, which is currently home to up to 10,000 migrants. The newspapers all say that Calais is like Baghdad, but when the tourists actually come into the city they say it's beautiful," he says, while waiting in a line of taxis at Calais train station. It's bad for taxi drivers, hotels, restaurants, camping sites..."(Locals have protested against migrants in the past.

Source: The Local September 05, 2016 06:45 UTC