Ten years ago today, thousands of migrants were thrown out of a shanty town nicknamed The Jungle in the port of Calais.
Their eviction was hailed as a historic moment that would bring an end to the never-ending stream of foreigners determined to cross the 21-mile Channel illegally.
Just after dawn on October 24, 2016, bulldozers moved into the giant 40-acre camp as weeping charity workers watched in despair.
In a brutal operation ordered by the French government, the machines destroyed entire streets of rickety timber huts with corrugated iron roofs and cardboard doors alongside tea houses, tobacco stores, bicycle repair shops, secretive
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