CALAIS, France — French crews began disassembling makeshift shelters Tuesday, removing tarpaulins and scrap materials that made up the so-called “Jungle” migrant camp near Calais.
On the second day of a week-long operation to remove the camp and encourage migrants gathered near the port city to stay in France, hundreds of people boarded buses to leave.
By midday, a regional spokesman said some 16 buses had left the registration center carrying more than 650 migrants to accommodation centers throughout France where they can apply for asylum.
Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve told the lower house of parliament in the afternoon that more than 1,000 had been sheltered on Tuesday, coming after the 1,918 adults and 400 unaccompanied minors were taken from the makeshift camp on the first day of the government operation.