British Hollywood actor Jude Law’s do-gooder visit to the so-called jungle migrant camp in Calais ended in violence after a number of the party were ambushed and deprived of their mobile phones by the migrants they had gone to support.

Jude Law and other celebrities including Dad’s Army reboot actor Toby Jones, musician Tom Odell, and comedian Shappi Khorsandi visited Calais last week in an effort to raise the profile of the migrant slums before they were demolished by the French authorities. The group used their trip as an opportunity to call on the British government to throw open the gates to women and children in the camp.

Yet immediately after the cameras stopped rolling for the high profile publicity stunt, the migrants the celebrities had argued so passionately for struck, and a number of Jude Law’s so-called “minders” were ambushed and mugged, reports the Mirror.

An unnamed source is quoted as saying of the incident: “We were shocked to see some of the migrants acting like football hooligans.

“The security team had stones thrown at them, and two had their phones smashed then stolen. Jude and Tom were told to stay in the bus shortly before the ambush as the atmosphere was building”.

Despite the celebrities being removed from the situation by their staff, singer Tom Odell still chose to call the experience “one of the most humbling and inspiring of my life”.

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