Photo: AFPThe Local · 18 Oct 2016, 14:57Published: 18 Oct 2016 14:57 GMT+02:00A court in France has given the government the green light to tear down the sprawling Calais migrant camp known as the Jungle with the bulldozers now set to move in "in a matter of days". A group of 11 charities had launched an eleventh-hour bid to prevent the bulldozers from moving in, arguing that that pulling down the Jungle camp was "against the fundamental rights" of the thousands of refugees who call the camp home. But the court disagreed with them, ruling that the dismantling of the camp would work to end "inhumane and degrading" treatment of migrants. Cazeneuve then said the razing of the shanty town would begin in a matter of days. Britain and France are working on an agreement that would see hundreds of unaccompanied children in the camp taken in by the UK.

Source: The Local October 18, 2016 13:24 UTC