EVENT INFORMATION

4
October
2015

Anti-migrant demonstrators rally on a Calais beach

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📅 4 October 2015 📍 France

Around 300 people described by Politis as “Calaisians in anger” demonstrated against migrants living in the Calais camp. The rally was prohibited by the town hall but authorized by the prefecture. Including this anti-migrant mobilization records the hostile local politics that shaped the border crisis; it is not treated as equivalent to migrants’ claims for safety or to solidarity organizing. The entry also cautions against presenting a town as politically uniform.

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People in this event

Calais residents

anti-migrant demonstrators

migrants targeted by the rally

Organizations in this Event

Anti-migrant local collective

Calais municipal and prefectural authorities