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  • Arsonists have attacked the structure of a new 'Sangatte' welcome centre which was due to open for UK-bound migrants in Calais this week.

    Gates of Vienna 2009

  • Black police chiefs call Met truce Leading black and ethnic minority officers at the Met are ready to reopen relations with the force's top brass months after an acrimonious rift Love life taunts behind killing rampage The rampage by a gunman who killed 10 people in rural Alabama could have been sparked by taunts about his failed love life Fewer sports fields sold off Applications to sell off playing fields are lower in London than anywhere else in Britain, official figures reveal New 'Sangatte' camps to be built in Calais France is to perform a U-turn by building

    Evening Standard - Home 2009

  • Black police chiefs call Met truce Leading black and ethnic minority officers at the Met are ready to reopen relations with the force's top brass months after an acrimonious rift Love life taunts behind killing rampage The rampage by a gunman who killed 10 people in rural Alabama could have been sparked by taunts about his failed love life Fewer sports fields sold off Applications to sell off playing fields are lower in London than anywhere else in Britain, official figures reveal New 'Sangatte' camps to be built in Calais France is to perform a U-turn by building

    Evening Standard - Home 2009

  • In Europe, the subject of administrating refugees has been controversial since the French government ordered the closure in 2002 of the Sangatte holding camp near Calais, after a number of riots and a surge of illegal smuggling of people into the U.K.

    Australia and Malaysia Sign Refugee Pact Enda Curran 2011

  • Calais became a magnet for asylum seekers in the late 1990s after the opening of the Sangatte Red Cross Centre, which housed 67,000 over three years.

    August « 2008 « Isegoria 2008

  • Calais became a magnet for asylum seekers in the late 1990s after the opening of the Sangatte Red Cross Centre, which housed 67,000 over three years.

    Welcome to the Jungle « Isegoria 2008

  • Mr Woolas emphasised that it would not be like the infamous Sangatte.

    Life in the Soviet Rep. of Britain: New Labour's Cool Britannia. FIDO The Dog 2009

  • When come back in a moment, Christine Lagarde says France cannot accept a camp housing illegal immigrants at Sangatte.

    CNN Transcript Sep 24, 2009 2009

  • QUEST: These scenes that we saw around Sangatte, as the French authorities dealt with the informal immigration camp that was there, do you -- obviously you would regret the scenes of destruction, but do you regret the way in which that matter was handled?

    CNN Transcript Sep 24, 2009 2009

  • Describing his plans for the centre, Mr Woolas emphasised that it would not be like the infamous Sangatte.

    Life in the Soviet Rep. of Britain: New Labour's Cool Britannia. FIDO The Dog 2009

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