Emily Kent Smith In Calais For The Daily Mail and Martin Robinson for MailOnline report,
An organised mob of 200 migrants charged into the Calais entrance of the Channel Tunnel early yesterday, chanting ‘open the borders’ and demanding to be allowed into Britain.Read more here.
They tore down fences and charged past police, who retaliated by spraying tear gas. When the migrants were finally beaten back, they regrouped to form a human barricade, blocking the road to the tunnel.
A French riot officer was left needing stitches in his head and face after police were pelted by stones last night as around 1,700 migrants again tried to storm the Channel Tunnel - the highest number for several days.
For the past week thousands of people have stormed fences and desperately tried to clamber on trains bound for Kent - a deadly gamble that has allowed at least 200 to get to Britain but also claimed the lives of nine people.
The trouble began in the early hours of Sunday when 200 migrants were yards from entering the Channel Tunnel on foot after storming down barricades.
They ran towards the fences, smashing and tearing down the flimsy barriers as they went.
They were only held back by tear gas.
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