Illegal means: 2,000 migrants try to enter Eurotunnel

LILLE: About 2,000 migrants tried to enter the Eurotunnel terminal in the French port town of Calais overnight in a desperate bid to reach England through the Channel tunnel, a spokesman said on Tuesday. “It was the biggest incursion effort in the past month and a half,” said the spokesman for Eurotunnel, which is battling often deadly efforts by migrants to smuggle into Britain. Security at the Calais port was stepped up in mid-June, driving migrants who previously tried to stow away on trucks that take ferries across the Channel to try their luck getting through the tunnel. The migrants were trying to enter the site “between midnight and 6:00 am,” the Eurotunnel spokesman said. “All our security personnel, that is nearly 200 people, as well as police were called in,” he added.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 29^th, 2015.