article_snippet: It is believed the French authorities plan to raze the illegal shanty town which has grown up around the town’s ferry port next Tuesday.
article_snippet: But since then the police have failed to move the police on and the area has become blighted by rubbish and roughly improvised shelters causing fury among local French residents.
article_snippet: During the six years that Sangatte was open, it acted as stepping stone to Britain for an estimated 18,000 illegal immigrants and remains a source of bad feeling between Britain and France.
article_snippet: ‘The French need to tackle illegal immigration illegal immigration and not set up a camp convenient for for going to England.
article_snippet: The French signed up to open borders and now The French are failing to properly deal with the consequences.
article_snippet: There is a danger that this camp will turn into a new Sangatte, with all the problems that entailed.
article_snippet: ‘suffering the consequences of the custodial role Britain has imposed on us to guard Britain frontier on us territory.
article_snippet: Relations between the neighbouring countries have steadily deteriorated over the last year over the problem of Calais.
article_snippet: Last summer mass brawls between rival gangs left more than 70 people injured and has forced the French riot police to maintain an almost constant presence to keep the peace.