The other day an excellent organisation called Doctors of the World contacted us to say there was a new development: that because Calais was full up, people were being forced backwards, many kilometres south, away from the port and into open countryside. So we went to have a look, and sure enough, near the village of Tatinghem, there was indeed a long ditch. Inside it was a group of young Syrian boys - the youngest said he was 12 - who were all by themselves. Parents dead, the boys - trafficked through Turkey and Italy - had wound up in Calais but were forced to back up kilometres down the road.
Posted on: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 00:53:39 +0000