Five migrants shot in Calais brawl blamed on traffickers
9 years agoFrench Interior Minister Gerard Collomb (L) meets with DDCS personnel on February 2, 2018 in Calais, northern France, following a large brawl between a hundred migrants which resulted in several injuries. Five migrants were in critical condition Thursday after being shot and 18 were injured in clashes in Calais between Afghans and Africans, local authorities said. Four Eritreans aged between 16 and 18 were taken to hospital for surgery, local prosecutors said. Another wounded migrant was taken to the nearby city of Lille because of his "very serious state of health," the local prefect's office said. / AFP PHOTO / POOL / Philippe Huguen
Five migrants were shot during a giant brawl in Calais, leaving four fighting for their lives Friday in what the French government called an "unbearable" escalation of violence in a port that serves as a gateway to Britain.
