Title
Illegal migrants Calais
Caption
France. Calais. Des migrants en provenance d'Afghanistan et d'Iran attendent en limite de l'autoroute de pouvoir monter clandestinement à bord de camions dans l'espoir de rejoindre la Grande-Brittany. Six ans après la fermeture du camp de Sangatte, environ 17 000 clandestins survivraient actuellement dans les environs de Calais dans l'attente d'un passage vers la Grande-Brittany.Migrants wait near the motorway turn-off to the port of Calais, hoping to jump onto trucks as they slow down, and get a passage over to the UK. Six years after the closure of the Sangatte refugee centre, migrants from Afghanistan, Iraqi Kurdistan, Eritrea and other countries, still flock to Normandy in an attempt to reach England in the back of trucks crossing the English Channel. Around 17 000 would live in insalubrious conditions in the subburbs of the city.
2008
Date
2008
Credit line
Photo12/Marc Charuel
Reference
MHC08A00_020
Model release
No
License type
Rights managed
Available size
34,9Mb (1,3Mb) / 14,3in x 9,5in / 4288 x 2848 (300dpi)