Following the brutal eviction attempt of the 'Old Lidl' camp in Calais, another violent incident took place on January 2. Migrants were forced out of the site in the early afternoon. According to the authorities, the process was to facilitate the evacuation that had not been possible a few days earlier and "if possible, to proceed with arrests."
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Four days after the Channel shipwreck that claimed the lives of 27 migrants, the French interior minister claimed that some migrants were resorting to blackmail and had threatened to throw their babies into the water if police intercepted them at sea. Aid groups in northern France are "shocked" by the remarks.