It was destroyed. At 7am yesterday morning the CRS (French police) again moved in to flatten the Dunkirk Grande-Synthe ‘camp’ where refugee women, children and men, who are not from Ukraine, attempt to survive.

This is what our tax-payer £42m is paying for; the latest sum Priti Patel gifted France for so-called border security and definitely not for humanitarian aid.

I saw with my own eyes on Monday and Tuesday around 500 people living in absolute destitution. What else do you call sheltering under a pop-up tent with no gas, electricity or running water? No toilets or showers, no washing or cooking facilities? Permitted to scratch out a camp spot on waste land…. Until one morning you’re reminded, in the cruelest way, that you’re not even wanted there and you’re not welcome. And even your tent on scrap land isn’t really yours.

Why? Can anyone tell me why?

Many people are Muslim or Orthodox Christian. Do the CRS even care they took this action within days of both Eid and Orthodox Easter? The most sacred time for each religion. Do they even know?

Thank you Mobile Refugee Support, Roots, Human Rights Observers and others for being there to help these people rebuild each time this happens.

Grassroots volunteers save lives physically and mentally. This eviction won’t stop people crossing to the U.K. It will push them to take extra risks as their hatred and disrespect of France understandably intensifies. France is not a safe country for these people and if I was them I wouldn’t stay there either. THIS inhumanity is a push factor Patel blindly funds and France stupidly dances to the tune of. Again and again and again.

Feeling angry and frustrated and heartbroken and so much more.

Photo credits: Mobile Refugee Support