Grande-Synthe
Four Injured in Smuggler Gunfight at Migrant Camp in the North of France
A shooting incident at the squalid Grande-Synthe tent city between rival smugglers who operate around the port of Dunkirk triggered a massive police intervention. The four people in custody are said to be Iraqi Kurds at the camp who were wounded.
France Agrees to Build New Camp as Refugees and Migrants in the North Face Winter
Some 2,500 people are currently living in damp and squalid conditions in a marshland slum at Grande-Synthe on the outskirts of Dunkirk.
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