French minister vows 'rapid' closure of Jungle migrant camp

[WorldNews]

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France will dismantle the sprawling "Jungle" migrant camp in the northern port of Calais "as rapidly as possible", the interior minister said after visiting the site. Authorities must work "methodically and with perseverance... to definitively close the camp", Bernard Cazeneuve told security forces in the city. Calais mayor Natacha Bouchart had earlier said that Cazeneuve assured her that the complex would be dismantled in a single operation, adding later that he had said it would happen before the end of the year.

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