By September 2014, some 1,200 to 1,500[REF][REF][REF] migrants, mainly Eritreans, Sudanese, Afghans,[REF] Somalians[REF] and Syrians,[REF] lived in makeshift camps or disused buildings[REF] in Calais and made regular attempts to hide in lorries bound to cross the Channel to Britain [REF].
Days later, 250 migrants tried to storm and get into vehicles on a lorry park about to cross to the UK, the police scattered them with tear gas [REF].