About a hundred migrants attacked the police with “bags filled with stones ” in the zone Transmarck, according to a police source.
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At least fifteen police officers were hospitalized on Thursday, December 30, after clashes between CRS and migrants in Calais (Pas-de-Calais) in the morning, according to a police source, reports France Bleu Nord. This information was also confirmed by the prefecture of Pas-de-Calais in a press release.
At around 10 a.m., a clash broke out between sixty CRS and gendarmes and a hundred migrants in Calais, in the Transmarck zone where exiles tried to board the trucks to reach England. The police, who were securing the area, say they were attacked. According to a police source on the spot, the attack was of “incredible violence”.
A CRS says that migrants “had bags full of stones and ballast in their tents”. Witnesses describe “a war scene” with migrants who threw stones and CRS who responded with tear gas and fire from defense bullets.
According to the Auberge des migrants, an association that helps exiles, migrants were “very angry” because the police prevented them from recovering belongings in the tents.
At least fifteen CRS were hospitalized according to a police source for bruises and wounds. Several migrants were also injured in this clash, without knowing the exact number.
The evacuation operation ended at the end of the morning. In a press release, the prefect of Pas-de-Calais “strongly condemns this violence and gives full support to the injured police and gendarmes.”