article_snippet: Calais officials are poised to start bulldozing the illegal migrant camps that have marred the town for more than a decade.
article_snippet: Yesterday Yesterday emerged that the Prefect of Calais has issued an ultimatum to migrants telling them to remove them belongings and evacuate by the end of the month or be forcibly ejected by riot police.
article_snippet: Calais officials will begin bulldozing migrant camps around Calais at the end of this month following the opening of a new refugee centre (file image)
article_snippet: Natacha Bouchart, the mayor of Calais, hopes the purpose-built Jules Ferry Centre will allow authorities to get a grip on the situation which has plagued her town for months .
article_snippet: The town mayor Natacha Bouchart hopes the measure will help the authorities to gain control over the town’s chaotic migrant population and limit the influence of the people smugglers who exploit the desperation of those living in the filthy camps.
article_snippet: Earlier this week Mayor Bouchart, 52, herself the daughter of eastern European migrants who settled in France, used a speech to European council to blame Britain for the lawlessness in Calais.
article_snippet: In October Home Secretary Theresa May was forced to pledge £12million to tighten security in Calais after 250 immigrants stormed the ferry terminal hoping to make it across the Channel.