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Migrants in Calais
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After a three-month winter hiatus, senior French police sources yesterday warned that the number of migrant attempts to cross the Channel to the UK was likely to significantly increase.

And the law enforcement workforce around Calais was described as seriously demoralised.

Gilles Debove, deputy secretary general of SGP Police Unit Force, ...

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