FILE PHOTO: Migrants confront French police officers as police dismantle a makeshift shelter camp in Calais, France July 10, 2020. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol/File Photo
CALAIS, France (Reuters) - French police on Tuesday dismantled a migrant camp in the northern port of Calais, from where thousands of illegal economic migrants and would-be asylum seekers have sought to cross the English Channel to reach British shores.
A police source said the operation began shortly before sunrise. The makeshift camp was home to about 700 migrants, the source added.
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