Migrants DITCH French asylum centres to head BACK to Calais and resume UK-bound mission
YOUNG migrants have left their welcome centres across France in droves to head back to Calais and resume their bid to get to the UK.
Police search for migrants attempting to stay in Calais
In one week, half of all the 1,800 child migrants who had been rehoused in welcome centres across France have left to return to Calais and seek their path to the UK again.
Around 6,000 migrants have been cleared out of the notorious Calais Jungle and dispersed across 460 centres in France, where they have been told they could apply for asylum.
According to the French publication, L’Express, there are children who have returned to Calais where the Jungle Camp has just been destroyed as they hope to reach the UK.
Migrants in France have left their welcome centres
The Calais Jungle camp has been dismantled in recent days
19 young migrants want to leave as they still want to get to England via Calais where they say they have family and the language is more familiar to them
In Charente-Maritime in South West France, half of the 22 child migrants who had been relocated there have returned to Calais.
Only five child migrants from Somalia and Afghanistan got onto a vehicle to Fouras in South West France.
According to Sudouest, around 30 others did not get onto the planned transportation from the Calais Jungle Camp.
The president of the association of teaching in Fouros, Dadou Kehl, said: “Many of the migrants are always are on the telephone with people already in England. Our association is running a holiday centre and not a detention centre.”
Thousands of migrants have been dispersed to various welcome centres across France
In East France, Meurthe-et-Moselle, 19 of the 40 Calais child migrants have left the welcome centres.
Last Wednesday, 40 child migrants arrived but by Saturday there were only 21 remaining.
Leader of the local council, Mathieu Klein, said: “19 young migrants want to leave as they still want to get to England via Calais where they say they have family and the language is more familiar to them.”
Hollande has said nobody is allowed to re-enter the Jungle Camp
Hollande hails Calais 'Jungle' camp evacuation
Director of Terre d’Asile, the organisation which decides which child migrants should get to come to England, Pierre Henry, said: “94 per cent of these young people hope, at all costs, to reach the UK.”
On Monday, he said that half of these young people who have been relocated to welcome centres across France have already disappeared and want to return to Calais.
The French president Francois Hollande has said that no-one is allowed back into the Jungle camp now it has been cleared of migrants and evacuated.
The UK has taken in around 200 children in recent weeks and this number is expected to rise.