Muslim rioters with bars and hammers applauded by those who carry and hammers sickles.
Calais migrants ‘armed with iron bars and hammers’ storm roads near Channel Tunnel and clash with French riot police
Storming: Dozens of migrants and refugees tried to storm the Eurotunnel and climb into lorries in a bid to reach the UK, clashing with riot police
- Migrants and refugees block traffic near the Channel Tunnel in Calais
- Some were reportedly ‘armed with iron bars, stones and hammers’
- Riot police clashed with migrants as dozens tried to climb into lorries
Hundreds of migrants and refugees are storming the roads near the Channel Tunnel in Calais, some ‘armed with iron bars and hammers,’ according to reports.
According to a vigilante group in the French port town, there have been clashes between riot police and migrants as dozens tried to storm the tunnel and climb into lorries in a bid to reach the UK.
Several videos uploaded by the group, calling themselves ‘Angry Calaisians’, shows dozens of people, mainly young men, runs across the roads.
The incidents have caused several traffic jams near the Channel Tunnel, with locals writing on social media that ‘a group of six or seven migrants are running around with iron bars, stones and hammers’ near a local supermarket.
An hour earlier, a post on the Facebook group claimed there was an ‘attack of the tunnel
Later on, a group administrator added: ‘A hundred illegals all on the way to the channel invading the roads! Be on your guard! Police in riot gear are at the scene!’
Images taken on Thursday shows all-male groups of migrants and refugees running across the motorway near the tunnel, followed by riot police.
A number of men were also seen forcibly entering a handful of trucks and trailers which had been forced to stop.
French police forces attempt to disperse migrants and refugees on one of the roads of the Eurotunnel in Calais
