A member of the cleaning volunteer service jumps down the truck as a fire starts at the entrance of the main road of The Jungle (Calais, France), in March of 2016.
A member of the cleaning volunteer service jumps down the truck as a fire starts at the entrance of the main road of The Jungle (Calais, France), in March of 2016.
Riot police officers cut the access to south part of the camp on March 11th, 2016. A fire started that afternoon in The Jungle (Calais, France) and everything in the south side of the main road was burnt to the ground.
Riot police officers cut the access to south part of the camp on March 11th, 2016. A fire started that afternoon in The Jungle (Calais, France) and everything in the south side of the main road was burnt to the ground.
The French riot police blocks one of the main roads in The Jungle (Calais, France), in March of 2016. A fire started that afternoon and completely burnt to the ground half of the camp. In the image, refugees wait until the fire is extinguished, as the tension rises between them and the police. Many refugees lost their belongings that afternoon.
The French riot police blocks one of the main roads in The Jungle (Calais, France), in March of 2016. A fire started that afternoon and completely burnt to the ground half of the camp. In the image, refugees wait until the fire is extinguished, as the tension rises between them and the police. Many refugees lost their belongings that afternoon.
The police controls the refugees during the fire that burnt half of The Jungle (Calais, France), in March of 2016.
The police controls the refugees during the fire that burnt half of The Jungle (Calais, France), in March of 2016.
A teenager runs trying to get through the police lines in The Jungle (Calais; France); in March of 2016. On March 11th half of the camp burnt to the ground and the tension between police and refugees was was really high.
A teenager runs trying to get through the police lines in The Jungle (Calais; France); in March of 2016. On March 11th half of the camp burnt to the ground and the tension between police and refugees was was really high.
An Afghan teenager runs over the burning ashes of some tents, carrying a bucket of water to help the firemen, in The Jungle (Calais, France), in March of 2016.
An Afghan teenager runs over the burning ashes of some tents, carrying a bucket of water to help the firemen, in The Jungle (Calais, France), in March of 2016.
A Sudanese refugee helps trying to save some construction boards from the fire in The Jungle (Calais, France), in March of 2016.
A Sudanese refugee helps trying to save some construction boards from the fire in The Jungle (Calais, France), in March of 2016.
Some refugees watching a burning tent in The Jungle (Calais, France), in March of 2016.
Some refugees watching a burning tent in The Jungle (Calais, France), in March of 2016.

Reportage

The Jungle is Burning

Between the 4th and the 11th of March, the south part of the refugee camp of Calais (France), commonly known as “The Jungle”, was set to be demolished. It didn’t matter how hard the volunteers and the residents of the camp tried to avoid such an ignominious fate.

The Bulldozers started at the beginning of the week and every day a tent or two were burnt. But the 11th something happened. A fire was declared in the south part of the camp that spread in a matter of minutes. Half of the camp was on fire. The French police cordoned off the area to keep everyone away from the flames. Only the church, the library and the school were saved. Many volunteers blamed the police, but whoever set the first tent on fire still remains a mystery. According to the NGOs, around 6,000 migrants were living in the camp at that time, willing to cross the English Channel to reach United Kingdom.