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Agence France-Presse

Around 250 rights activists protested on Saturday in the northern French port of Calais against a local ban on feeding migrants in the city centre.
Members of around 70 charities and rights groups also denounced what they say is the failure of local officials to provide even basic services to the migrants living in and around the city.
On Friday, France’s top administrative court refused to suspend the order issued by the region’s prefect banning feeding migrants in the centre of Calais, a decision that provoked outrage among rights campaigners.
Migrants resume risky English Channel crossings in dinghies as calm seas return
Local officials had argued successfully that the city centre ban, within strictly defined limits, was needed to maintain public order and to ensure that social distancing measures against the spread of the coronavirus were properly enforced.
Activists working with migrants were free to help them outside that zone, they said.
There are up to 1,200 migrants based around the port of Calais, from countries including Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Sudan and Eritrea.
Most of them are trying to find a way across the Channel to the United Kingdom.


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Around 250 French activists protest against ban on feeding migrants in port town of Calais

Migrants sit on a boat in the English Channel off the coast of northern France, as they attempt to cross the maritime borders between France and the United Kingdom in August. Photo: AFP

Pictures shows migrants posing at a makeshift camp in the outskirts of Calais in northern France. Photo: AFP

Migrants resume risky English Channel crossings in dinghies as calm seas return

Migrants in a dinghy sail in the Channel toward the south coast of England after crossing from France. Photo: Agence France-Presse

Migrants in a dinghy sail in the Channel toward the south coast of England on September 1, 2020 after crossing from France. - Migrant crossings of the Channel between France and England have hit record numbers, with thousands having arrived in small boats since the beginning of the year. The issue is politically-charged in the UK, with the country's right-wing newspapers decrying the arrivals and many ruling Conservative lawmakers calling for tougher border enforcement. (Photo by Glyn KIRK / AFP)

TOPSHOT - An aerial view shows dinghies stored in a Port Authority yard, believed to have been used by migrants picked up at sea whilst crossing the English Channel, in Dover, south-east England on August 15, 2020. (Photo by BEN STANSALL / AFP)

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Residents protest against the continuing landings of migrants on the island of Lampedusa. Photo: EPA-EFE

epa08635214 The patrol boat of the Italian Coast Guard loaded with rescued migrants arrive at the port in Lampedusa, Italy, 30 August 2020. According to Italian agencies, about 450 migrants aboard an old fishing boat disembarked overnight between 29 - 30 August, on the island of Lampedusa. EPA-EFE/ELIO DESIDERIO

Migrants are being transfered at the commercial port of Lampedusa on August 29, 2020 from the Coast Guard patrol boat "CP-1319", which transhipped them from the civilian rescue boat "Louise Michel" 50 miles southeast of the Italian pelagic island. - An Italian coastguard vessel came to the rescue on August 29, 2020 of rescue vessel "Louise Michel" funded by British street artist Banksy, which sent out a distress signal on with more than 200 migrants onboard. (Photo by Mauro Seminara / AFP)

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A boat in which some 11 migrants were attempting to cross the English Channel, in waters off the coastal town of Calais, northern France. File photo: AFP

Poppy Cleary, a British volunteer in the French port of Calaiswith the refugee charity Collective Aid. Photo: Handout

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Police officers look at an inflatable boat after they rescued 11 migrants in difficulty who tried to cross the Channel to Great Britain on April 09, 2020 in Calais, northern France, on the twenty-second day of a lockdown in France aimed at curbing the spread of the COVID-19 disease, caused by the novel coronavirus. (Photo by BERNARD BARRON / AFP)

French gendarme motorcyclists patrol the beach in Oye-Plage, near Calais, northern France, as part of a monitoring mission of beaches from which migrants attempt to cross the English Channel to reach the United Kingdom, on Brexit Day, January 31, 2020. - Britain leaves the European Union at 2300 GMT on January 31, 2020, 43 months after the country voted in a June 2016 referendum to leave the block. The withdrawal from the union ends more than four decades of economic, political and legal integration with its closest neighbours. (Photo by DENIS CHARLET / AFP)

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France refused to suspend order issued by the region’s prefect banning feeding migrants in the centre of Calais
There are up to 1,200 migrants based around Calais, from countries including Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Sudan and Eritrea



Charities and rights groups denounced ‘failure of local officials to provide even basic services to migrants living in and around the city’.


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Around 250 French activists protest against ban on feeding migrants in port town of Calais

France refused to suspend order issued by the region’s prefect banning feeding migrants in the centre of Calais There are up to 1,200 migrants based around Calais, from countries including Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Sudan and Eritrea

France refused to suspend order issued by the region’s prefect banning feeding migrants in the centre of Calais

There are up to 1,200 migrants based around Calais, from countries including Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Sudan and Eritrea