Migrants set fires to keep themselves warm as they face ANOTHER night in the Calais Jungle after removal operation stalls when French authorities run out of buses 

  • Hundreds of migrants are waiting to be transported from camp to new accommodation around the country
  • Tonight campfires are burning all over the camp as migrants wait to be distributed across France tomorrow 
  • One of the reception centres earmarked for housing refugees was set on fire at Loubeyrat, in Puy-de-Dome
  • French interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve said 2,318 migrants were moved today, below the 3,000 target
  • The huge clearance operation is expected to last three days before the camp, in Calais, is demolished

By Glen Keogh In Calais For The Daily Mail and Fidelma Cook and Nick Fagge In Calais For Mailonline

Published: 15:44 GMT, 24 October 2016 | Updated: 21:29 GMT, 24 October 2016

Hundreds of migrants in the Jungle have started campfires to keep warm as they wait to be transported to new accommodation scattered across France after officials ran out of buses.

Riot police were involved in a tense stand-off with migrants as authorities tried to empty the squalid encampment in Calais this afternoon. 

Earlier arsonists torched a hostel set up to receive some of the migrants.

One of the reception centres earmarked for housing refugees was set on fire at Loubeyrat, in Puy-de-Dome, central France. 

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Campfires have been started all over the Jungle as debris is ignited to keep the remaining migrants warm

A migrant blows out smoke into the bitterly cold air as he waits for buses, which will redistribute the Jungle's residents to centres across France

While much of the Jungle has been dismantled, many migrants remain there and have lit fires to keep warm

An abandoned portable toilet is set on fire and pushed over at the Jungle tonight

A young man rides a bicycle through the partly dismantled camp as smoke rises from the bonfires

The migrants who remain are mainly young men, many of whom come from Africa or from Afghanistan

Sparks fly from a campfire tonight. The atmosphere in the camp is said to be tense after an earlier stand-off with riot police

A migrant's face is lit up by his mobile phone screen as he waits beside a campfire in the Jungle tonight

The vacant building's entrance and lobby was damaged in the attack which took place between Sunday night and Monday morning and an investigation is under way.

A statement from the local prefecture said:  'The Government strongly condemns this act which, apart from being criminal and dangerous, violates the republican values of France which offer refuge to people fleeing war and persecution. It is a duty which we cannot escape.'

It comes as authorities launched a three-day bid to clear the Jungle camp.

France's Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said tonight that 2,318 migrants had been moved from the Jungle today, failing to meet the target of 3,000 which had been set. 

He said 1,918 left Calais on buses for 80 reception centres elsewhere in France while 400 children were taken to 'provisional reception centres' in Calais ahead of their transfer elsewhere. 

Migrants throw rocks at police who fired smoke grenades inside the Jungle camp near Calais

A handful of migrants threw rocks at the police but it was not on the same scale as previous trouble at the camp

A man in a hoodie wanders through clouds of tear gas fired by police

Police with cameras keep a watchful eye on the migrants. Smoke grenades were fired by police

The frame of a bicycle is consumed by the flames of a camp fire at the Jungle tonight

Earlier, before dusk fell, there was time for a game of cricket. Some of the migrants are from Afghanistan and Pakistan, where cricket is a national obsession

Riot police were involved in a tense stand-off with migrants as authorities tried to empty the squalid encampment in northern France this afternoon

Pictures emerged of police in Calais battling to hold back a crowd of migrants as authorities launched a three-day bid to clear the Jungle camp

In a sign of rising tensions over the operation, one of the reception centres earmarked for housing refugees was set on fire at Loubeyrat, in Puy-de-Dome, central France 

The vacant building's entrance and lobby was damaged in the attack which took place between Sunday night and Monday morning and an investigation is under way

This morning, the operation was on the verge of stopping after authorities 'ran out of buses' - with migrants told to go back to the camp and try again tomorrow.

More than one thousand migrants, wrapped up against the cold and with their meagre possessions packed in suitcases, began queuing before dawn to be transferred from the camp this morning on the first day of the operation to clear the sprawling shantytown. 

The migrants are being divided into four groups for families, single men, unaccompanied minors and other people considered vulnerable before taking one of 60 buses waiting to take them to 451 shelters nationwide. 

But just hours after the operation started, there were reports this morning that French authorities did not have enough buses to take away all of those who had been processed - with many simply told they would have to try again tomorrow.

It comes just hours after riot police came under attack from migrants with stones hurled at police and items set on fire.

On the eve of the long-awaited operation to tear down the squalid camp, defiant migrants said they were staying put and would continue trying to get to Britain.

And as their protests turned violent, French police issued an extraordinary statement saying anarchists from a UK-based group have infiltrated the camp and are planning to disrupt the operation. 

The Calais jungle clearance was on the verge of stopping this morning after authorities 'ran out of buses' with migrants told to go back to the camp and try again tomorrow. Migrants are pictured boarding buses for transportation to reception centres across France as part of a major three-day operation

More than one thousand migrants began queuing before dawn to be transferred from the camp this morning on the first day of the operation to clear the sprawling shantytown

Just hours after the operation started, there were reports this morning that French authorities did not have enough buses to take away all of those who had been processed - with many simply told they would have to try again tomorrow

Migrants were today required to present themselves at a temporary bus depot where they could choose between two regions in France where they will be transferred

French President Francois Hollande announced last month that the camp will close before winter, with its estimated 6,500 inhabitants dispersed around the country. Migrants were fitted with coloured wristbands at a processing centre today

Migrants, carrying their luggage, walk past the Calais city limit sign as they leave during the full evacuation of the Jungle

This morning, crowds of migrants waited in line to be processed at a registration camp. A group of several dozen migrant 'children' tried to jump the queue to be processed

Flames raged in the Calais Jungle camp and police shot tear gas canisters into crowds of migrants amid clashes on the eve of plans to dismantle the settlement

This migrant is seen walking through the smoke in the camp amid chaos tonight, likely to continue well into tomorrow

The clearance operation is expected to last three days after which the squalid makeshift town - one of the biggest in Europe where 6,000-8,000 people have been living in tents and shacks - will be demolished 

But thousands of migrants in the Jungle are expected to defy efforts to bus them away from Calais to reception centres around France as the demolition of the camp begins today. The developments came as:

  • Migrants protesting against the camp's destruction lit fires and threw rocks at French riot police, who responded by setting off tear gas and charging at groups of young men;
  • A British charity chief working at the camp compared France's treatment of refugees to the plight of the Jews during the Second World War;
  • Another 40 young migrants were brought in buses to Britain from Calais, with large screens put up to shield them as they arrived at an immigration centre in Croydon, south London.

French police last night admitted there was a 'high risk' of violent opposition from UK-based anti-capitalist group No Borders against the move to clear the Jungle.

In a statement, they said an exclusion zone had been created in the camp because of fears 'hard-Left activists' were planning attacks. 

They referred to an incident in March when the south side of the Jungle was cleared and 100 protesters descended on the camp, adding: 'Considering activists from hard-Left group No Borders have arrived in the Calais area and have set up home in squats, there is a high risk the activists have penetrated the camp with a view to influencing the migrants as they did in March.'

French authorities will spend three days processing people who live in the camp before spending the rest of the week bulldozing the area

Migrants lugging meagre belongings boarded buses Monday taking them away from Calais' Jungle under a French plan to raze the notorious camp and symbol of Europe's refugee crisis.

The notorious Jungle migrant camp on the outskirts of the French port of Calais has for years been a key staging post for migrants trying to smuggle across the Channel to Britain on lorries or trains

Scores of Sudanese and Eritrean men queued in the pre-dawn cold outside a hangar where they were later sorted into groups and put on coaches for shelters across France

Protest: A masked Iranian migrant with his lips sewn together protests against the dismantling of the Jungle camp

Migrants were pictured lining up at the Jungle in Calais this morning ahead of being bussed to other parts of the country

Refugees carrying their belonging arrive before being registered at a processing centre in the makeshift Jungle migrant camp

On the move: Migrants gathered and waited in line to be processed at a registration centre in the camp this morning

A migrant jumps over the fence of the short term welcome centre in the Jungle during its evacuation and dismantlement

Refugees were seen passing suitcases over a fence at the short term welcome centre in Calais

Riot police have been dispersed around the camp, not just deal with the problems of dispersal but to guard against attempts by British anarchists and smugglers intent on causing trouble as the refugees are moved out. 

Pierre-Henry Brandet, spokesman for the Ministry of the Interior told Le Point: 'They are needed to secure the area. There are No Borders and smugglers whose interests lie only in defeating the operation.'

Christian Salome, president of the charity Immigrant Shelter, said there had already been violent skirmishes.

'People have come for the violence,' he said. 'No Borders attack anyone, and we've already had some injuries.

A migrant with a Manchester City scarf carries a suitcase on his shoulder as he makes his way to a processing centre 

A coach carrying migrants leaves after they registered at a processing centre in the jungle near Calais, northern France

Migrants receive identity bracelets as they wait to board a bus for their evacuation next to the makeshift camp 'the Jungle'

The closure of the Jungle is aimed at ending months of tensions in the Calais area, where clashes between police and migrants trying to climb onto trucks heading to Britain are a near nightly occurrence

Hours before the evacuation got under way some migrants were still clinging to hopes of a new life across the Channel, believing their chances of finding a job and integrating there to be better

The migrants are being divided into four groups for families, single men, unaccompanied minors and other people considered vulnerable before taking one of 60 buses waiting on Monday to take them to 451 shelters nationwide

'They remind me of the people who go to football matches to fight with the police. It's the same thing – people come for the violence, and have nothing to do with the phenomenon of migration.'

It was also reported last night that members of No Borders were seen walking around with walkie-talkies co-ordinating the violence.

This morning, crowds of migrants waited in line to be processed at a registration camp. A group of several dozen migrant 'children' tried to jump the queue to be processed.

The gang of mostly Afghan youths formed a line next to gates of the warehouse being used as a processing centre.

The youngsters - some with moustaches and stubble - pushed through the crowd, claiming they were 'bambino', the jungle slang for unaccompanied minors.

One shouted: 'We are bambino let us go to England.' 

However French riot police refused to let them go first and ordered all migrants to join the sane queue. 

Many former Jungle residents - mainly African migrants from Sudan - were resigned that their chance to reach the UK in the back if a lorry or hidden on a train was over.

Among them was Abdul 26 from the war-torn Darfur region. He told MailOnline: 'I have left the Jungle. Life is too hard in the Jungle. I will go to one if the new centres in France.

Aid workers were advising refugees and migrants to register for the buses together as they believe this will give certain groups of friends or communities the best chance of not being separated. A further 85 buses were expected to arrive on Tuesday and Wednesday as the mass eviction continues

Some 60 government-organised buses were expected to take thousands of the camp's residents to temporary reception centres where they will have to claim asylum in France within a set period of time or face deportation

Buses could be seen parked up at the camp as authorities prepared to move migrants too other parts of the country

Migrants with their belongings queue as their evacuation and transfer to reception centres in France, and the dismantlement of the camp

Afghanistan migrants Osman, six, (centre) with his sisters Aisha, 12, Haleema, 11, and Sheemlia, nine, pose for a photograph in the Jungle camp

French authorities are beginning a complex operation, unprecedented in Europe, to shut down the makeshift camp, uprooting thousands who made treacherous journeys to escape wars, dictators or grinding poverty and dreamed of making a life in Britain

The clearance operation is expected to last three days after which the squalid makeshift town - one of the biggest in Europe where 6,000-8,000 people have been living in tents and shacks - will be demolished

Operation: Officials in France have said that they hope to relocate between 2,000 and 2,500 people on the first day

'I have been in the Jungle for six months. Every night I am trying to get to England but it is too difficult. There are police, the fences and walls.

'I will go to the new centre but I will not give up on my dream of going to England.

'France is not good. I cannot speak French only English. And I have family in England in Birmingham.'

Some migrants today told MailOnline they were happy to leave the Jungle.

Afordi, 20, from Sudan said: 'I am happy to leave the Jungle i will ask for asylum in France. I have tried to reach England more than 100 times, getting into a lorry. But it is too difficult. The Jungle is dirty and dangerous. I am happy to leave.'

Emmanuel, 23, from Eritrea said: 'The jungle is a bad place but i had to put up with it because it the way to reach England.

'I don't know what i am going to do now. We are going to a centre somewhere in France. I don't know where it is.' 

British Home Office workers were on site next to the Calais Jungle to consider asylum claims from unaccompanied children.

Officials from London had crossed the channel last week to assist the French immigration service.

THE NEXT STEP: HOW JUNGLE MIGRANTS WILL BE TRANSPORTED AROUND FRANCE

French authorities are beginning a complex operation, unprecedented in Europe, to shut down the makeshift Jungle camp today, uprooting thousands who made treacherous journeys to escape wars, dictators or grinding poverty and dreamed of making a life in Britain.

Under the eye of more than 1,200 police, the first of hundreds of buses were arriving to begin transferring migrants to reception centres around France where they can apply for asylum, and level the camp in a week-long operation. 

Hotels and even castles are among the hundreds of centres officials have been converting to migrant housing ahead of the big move.

Unaccompanied minors, many with family members in Britain, were to be housed on-site in containers set up earlier this year as their files are studied in London to see if they qualify for a transfer across the English Channel. 

It is believed they will be sorted into groups of families, minors, vulnerable or ill people and others travelling alone at a registration centre in a warehouse by the camp and given coloured wristbands depending on which region they say they would like to be sent to

The humanitarian organisation France Terre d'Asile, says 1,291 unaccompanied minors live in the camp.

Migrants will be separated into families, adults, unaccompanied minors and vulnerable individuals, including elderly people and single women.

They will then be bussed to the reception centres where they will receive medical checks and, if they have not already done so, decide whether to apply for asylum.

Migrants were today required to present themselves at the temporary bus depot where they could choose between two regions in France where they will be transferred. 

Under the eye of more than 1,200 police, the first of hundreds of buses were arriving to begin transferring migrants to reception centres around France where they can apply for asylum, and level the camp in a week-long operation

Migrants will be bussed to reception centres around France where they will receive medical checks and, if they have not already done so, decide whether to apply for asylum

A first coachload carrying 50 Sudanese left at about 8.45am, heading for the Burgundy region of east central France. Others were reportedly being taken to Paris, Lyons and Marseilles.

Some 60 government-organised buses were expected to take thousands of the camp's residents to temporary reception centres where they will have to claim asylum in France within a set period of time or face deportation.

It is believed they will be sorted in a warehouse by the camp and given coloured wristbands depending on which region they say they would like to be sent to.

Today they were interviewing migrant 'children' many of who claim to have relatives in the UK.

Standing in groups some 60 teenaged youngsters milled around the army tents that have been set up insude the huge warehouse where applications are being processed.

One Hone Office worker told MailOnline: 'There are about 60 children in here now. They say they have family in the UK.

'We are working with the French to assess their claims. We also try to verify their ages and find their relatives.'

Some 60 coaches will be laid on today to transport 3,000 migrants living in the Jungle to reception centres around France. The aim is to empty and destroy the camp by the end of the week.

Yesterday, 10,000 leaflets were handed out to migrants explaining the imminent demolition.

But migrants are putting on a united front in the face of the camp's planned destruction. Last night tensions escalated and there were clashes between refugees and more than 1,000 deployed police.

Many migrants say they intend to ignore the French authorities and stay around Calais so they can continue with their plans to reach Britain.

Despite an unprecedented information campaign by French immigration officials and welfare charities many migrants remain unaware of their future.

Crowds surged towards the warehouse where processing was taking place as police opened the gates just after 7am UK time on Monday

Police vans and fire engines had gathered on the perimeter of the rat-infested slum as migrants and refugees queued in the dark to register for accommodation centres elsewhere in France after being told they must leave the camp or risk arrest and deportation

People in the queues said they had no idea where they were going but many seemed resigned to leaving the sprawling camp, where demolition work is expected to begin tomorrow

The atmosphere in the queues was in contrast to scenes at the weekend when there were violent clashes, with camp residents throwing stones at French riot police on the perimeter who fought back by firing tear gas

This picture shows trailers from tear gas cannisters fired by French CRS riot police are seen above migrants on the eve of their evacuation and transfer to reception centers in France

One Afghan family including an 18-month-old baby remain stranded in the Jungle yesterday.

Yesterday brave Aisha, 12, led her six-year-old brother Osman and sisters Sheemlia, nine and Haleema, 11, looking for help amid the chaos as their widowed mother looked after her 18-month-old brother Hassan.

The family fled Afghanistan after their father was killed by the Taliban. Little Hassan was forced to walk for miles over the mountains to Turkey before boarding a boat to Greece and then overland to France.

The family are being cared for in a centre for the youngest children but they have no idea where they would go following the camp's demise.

THE JUNGLE: HOW CALAIS BECAME A STAGING POST FOR THOUSANDS OF MIGRANTS

The notorious 'Jungle' migrant camp on the outskirts of the French port of Calais has for years been a key staging post for migrants trying to smuggle across the Channel to Britain on lorries or trains.

Following are key dates in the history of the sprawling settlement which French authorities were starting to clear on Monday.

Sangatte closes, Jungle emerges

In 1999, the Red Cross opens the Sangatte camp near Calais port for migrants sleeping rough in and around the northern French city.

Under pressure from Britain, which sees it as having a 'pull' effect on migration, the camp is closed in 2002.

Hundreds of mainly Afghan migrants then set up camp east of Calais, on a patch of scrubland next to a road travelled by lorries heading for Calais port. The migrants call it the Jungle.

In September 2009, the Jungle is demolished for the first time on the orders of then president Nicolas Sarkozy, following a mass police raid in which scores of people are arrested.

The notorious 'Jungle' migrant camp on the outskirts of the French port of Calais has for years been a key staging post for migrants trying to smuggle across the Channel to Britain on lorries or trains

Various squalid settlements have existed for decades around the gritty town that is home to one of the country's biggest ports and the Channel Tunnel rail link connecting France and Britain

Jungle rebuilt 

In early 2015, a new settlement named the New Jungle sprouts up near a state-run day centre for migrants established at the site. The camp later becomes simply known as the Jungle.

In June, 21 people are injured when a brawl breaks out at night between up to 300 migrants in the camp.

Clashes, incursions

From mid-2015 on, migrants attempting to board lorries or enter the Channel Tunnel frequently clash with police around the camp, which mushrooms in size as asylum-seekers pour into Europe in unprecedented numbers.

Most of the 33 migrant deaths in the Calais region since January 2015 have been caused by road accidents, with many losing their lives as they attempted to climb onto lorries heading towards Britain under cover of night.

France's top administrative court in November raps the government over conditions in the Jungle, describing them as 'inhuman'.

In January 2016, the port of Calais is shut for more than three hours after dozens of migrants occupy a moored Britain-bound ferry.

A month later, around 20 people are arrested in Calais at a banned rally by supporters of Germany's xenophobic Pegida movement.

Under the eye of more than 1,200 police, the first of hundreds of buses were arriving to begin transferring migrants to reception centers around France where they can apply for asylum, and level the camp in a weeklong operation

Lines of migrants with their lives in small bags walked to a registration center in the French port city of Calais Monday, the first day of the mass evacuation and destruction of the filthy camp they called home

Partial demolition, wall starts

The southern half of the Jungle camp is demolished in late February and early March, sparking protests. Iranian migrants protesting at the destruction of their shacks sew their mouths shut. The evicted migrants moved to the northern part of the camp.

Six months later, pressure to tear down the rest of the camp builds. Protesting lorry drivers and farmers block roads around Calais with their vehicles.

Work begins in September on a four-metre (13-foot) high wall along part of the main port road, to prevent migrants climbing onto trucks.

Camp closure

 On September 26, President Francois Hollande says the Jungle will be demolished by the end of the year and that the migrants - estimated to number around 6,000 - will be moved to shelters around the country.

A group of charities challenge the demolition on human rights grounds but a court rejects their appeal, saying the migrants' conditions should be bettered by the camp's closure.

In the last days of the Jungle, Britain accelerates the transfer of child refugees seeking to be reunited with relatives in Britain, taking in around 200 minors.

On October 21 the interior ministry confirms the operation to tear down the camp will start on Monday.

Migrants began evacuating early Monday, with the first bus carrying about 50 Sudanese leaving the Jungle at about 8.45am. 

Along with their mother Zaina, the group were intent on starting a new life in the UK.

Despite their ages, they are unable to take advantage of the UK's asylum offer because they are in the care of their mother. They have no family in Britain and have lost contact with their father.

Aisha, who has been in the Jungle with her family for nine months, said: 'We love England.

There were clashes with police, seen here watching the chaos below from a bank next to the high fences

Smoke billows after migrants started fires, leaving an orange mist at the camp were tensions with ahuthorities run high

A number of migrants are seen here running past a huge fire raging inside the camp on the eve of the controversial clearance

The canisters were obviously enough to deter some of the migrants, seen leaving with their hands full earlier tonight

Migrants set alight to bins in the Calais Jungle camp as tensions run high ahead of the clearance and dismantlement of the camp 

Taking action: French riot police stand guard behind protective shields as they move in the close the Jungle camp

Police were seen at the camp wearing full riot gear, amid fears that anarchists have infiltrated the Jungle and plan to spark violence

Some of the migrants, many of whom are expected to refuse to leave tomorrow, threw rocks (pictured) at the riot police

'It is nice. We love the Queen and the girls in England are pretty. It is not good in Afghanistan because of the Taliban. I want to go to England and study, not France.'

Hassan added: 'I love football and cricket.'

And dozens of young men yesterday made last-ditch attempts to get to the UK on board lorries as riot officers violently repelled their efforts. Niebullah, 19, from Kunduz, Afghanistan, said he had travelled too far to give up on his dream of reaching the UK.

'It was very difficult to get to Calais,' he said. 'I went through many countries and I am so close to England now, why would I give up?

'I have a problem because my finger prints were taken. I don't want to go back to Italy. Italy has no jobs, no houses, no future. England is good, I want to go to England.'

Shermuhammed Dawlatzai, 32, also from Afghanistan, said he would refuse any offer of asylum in France, adding: 'I have been in the Jungle for nine months and I only want to go to UK. All my family is in the UK. I will have a good life there.'

A tear gas cannister explodes next to migrants standing on a bank during shocking scenes in the French migrant camp this evening

Migrants hold a blanket by a fire at the camp ahead of the clearance, when many will have to leave some of their belongings as they are taken to various other locations in France

Referring to the camp's destruction, he said: 'I will hide up a tree in Calais if I have to. I will see what they do tomorrow then decide. I don't want to be in France.'

The migrants are being given the chance to claim asylum in France – but many are expected to reject the offer and instead hide out in abandoned houses, derelict factories and forests around Calais so they can continue their attempts to reach the UK. Mr Salome told radio station Europe 1 this would lead to 'manhunts' across the region once the Jungle has been torn down.

Mayor of Calais Natacha Bouchart said she hoped the whole demolition of the camp would pass off 'smoothly', but said heavily-armed security were ready to deal with any trouble if required.

'We have tried to plan for everything,' she said. 'This is a big operation, the removal of more than 6,000 people from the Jungle.

'But I am confident that 90 per cent will make the right decision and accept a place at a reception centre in another part of France.

Rubbish bins were set alight amid clashes with police, who, along with immigration officials will be removing every migrant from the camp tomorrow

Police are well armed as they march into the Calais  Jungle camp during very tense times

'We will not allow another camp to spring up anywhere else in the Calais region.'

A Syrian mother and her three children, aged six, 11 and 14, arrived at the camp late on Saturday only to be confronted by a 50-strong mob rioting against police.

One witness claimed that the family, who were carrying their worldly possessions in suitcases, were pulled to one side by riot officers, who humiliated the mother by ransacking her case. Mary Jones, who runs a centre for children in the camp, said: 'They had no idea the Jungle was going to be demolished.

'The police went through their luggage, it was everything they owned. They threw toys and framed photos on the floor and even went through the mother's underwear.

'It was so humiliating for her. It really was a sad sight. She was weeping and the youngest girl had to be distracted from what was happening to her mother.'

A family of Afghans including an 18-month-old baby also remained stranded in the Jungle yesterday.

Migrants who refuse to board the buses have been warned they face arrest or deportation 

Activists working for Care4Calais have called on the UK government to do more for refugees

The group – Osman, six, Sheemlia, nine, Haleema, 11, Aisha, 12 and baby Hassan – are being cared for in a centre for the youngest children with no idea where they will go following the camp's destruction. Along with their mother Zaina, they are intent on starting a new life in the UK.

Despite their ages, they are unable to take advantage of the UK's asylum offer because they are with their mother rather than unaccompanied. They also have no family in Britain and have lost contact with their father.

Aisha, who has been in the Jungle with her family for nine months, said: 'We love England. It is nice. We love the Queen and the girls in England are pretty. It is not good in Afghanistan because of the Taliban. I want to go to England and study, not France.'

Authorities say 7,000 people are living in the camp, but aid workers put the figure closer to 10,000. They will this week go through a processing point in a warehouse near the Jungle before they are moved to accommodation centres across France.

AFGHAN BOY, 14, WELCOMES CLOSURE OF THE JUNGLE WHERE HE ONCE LIVED AFTER BEING REUNITED WITH FAMILY IN THE UK - BUT ADMITS SOME WILL REFUSE TO LEAVE

Brothers Asif Khan (left) and Aemal Khan in Hounslow, London, who were reunited when Aemal arrived from the so-called Jungle camp in Calais 

A 14-year-old Afhan boy who has been reunited with his family in the UK has welcomed the closure of the Jungle camp he once called home - but says many will refuse to leave.

Aemal Khan, who was last week brought to Britain as part of a fast-track process to provide protection for vulnerable youngsters, said the move was necessary.

The teenager left the harrowing surroundings of the camp to stay with his brother, Asif, 25, whom he had not seen for more than a decade.

'There are many people who try to come over to the UK who are trying to jump on the cars and they are going to die there, most of the people there go mental.

'When you stay one year in the Jungle, you have no idea how hard it is going to be.'

While welcoming the site's closure, he admitted he would have been tempted to stay in Calais despite its demolition to try and remain close to his brother.

There are fears that despite the ambition of the French authorities to shut the Jungle down, many desperate migrants will stay, hoping one day to reach Britain.

Although young people in the camp are often forced to go to dangerous lengths to try and enter the country, Aemal said he resisted the temptation.

But a friend of his, a young Afghan boy called Raheemullah, 14, died after apparently falling from a truck he had tried to climb on.

'I will remember that difficulties of my life in the Jungle, I cannot forget that,' he said.

French police have been searching vehicles arriving at the camp looking for weapons 

One refugee charity handed migrants a map showing the location of the camps and the English coastline so they can find their way to the United Kingdom from their new homes

Children will be interviewed separately in a joint operation by the French and UK government, with age assessments undertaken to 'stop older people from entering the children line'.

Italy wants EU countries that do not take in migrants to be fined after 14 died, including a pregnant woman, and more than 5,700 were rescued from the Mediterranean in two days.

Prime minister Matteo Renzi also asked Brussels to allow Italy to increase its budget deficit as it struggles with the costs of migrants arriving in the country and the effects of the earthquake in August.

He said their alternative would be to side with the 'Hungarian way' of putting up walls against migrants, adding: 'That would be the beginning of the end.'

The migrants are being moved to a number of reception centres around France 

CHARITY CHIEF IN CALAIS COMPARES FRENCH TO NAZIS AS SHE LIKENS TREATMENT OF MIGRANTS IN INFAMOUS CAMP TO JEWS DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

A British charity chief working in the Calais Jungle yesterday compared France's treatment of migrants to the plight of the Jews during the Second World War.

Clare Moseley, founder of the Care4Calais charity, said refugees were forced to sleep in shipping containers and were treated 'like cattle'.

She said: 'I would not want to trivialise what happened to the Jews because it was so awful, but there are parallels that can be drawn. The way that the French people treat the refugees sometimes can feel very much like cattle, it can feel very dehumanising.'

Clare Moseley of Care4Calais has accused French authorities of acting like Nazis over their plans to remove migrants from the Jungle camp and send them to centres around the country

Mrs Moseley added that migrants living in the camp were completely dependent on volunteers and charities for food, clothing, medical help and legal advice.

She said they were allocated dormitory beds in shipping containers, but claimed organisers did not take differing religions, cultures or ages into account, adding: 'They just allocate the spaces with no thought for who the people are as individuals, so they mix communities, they mix ages ... Nobody ever gets an unbroken night's sleep, nobody ever feels safe.'

A young male volunteer from the charity painted graffiti on a tarpaulin at the camp, writing: 'UK Government do more. Nobody is illegal.'

French immigration officials have been preparing migrants for tomorrow's planned evictions

More than 6,500 people are still believed to be in the camp which is set to be demolished 

The charity has spoken of its concerns about the demolition of the camp and has questioned how essential supplies such as food and clothing will be distributed to migrants once they are taken to temporary accommodation centres around France. Mrs Moseley, a former City accountant who left her family behind to volunteer at the Jungle, appeared in a BBC Inside Out documentary about conditions and security at the camp earlier this year. She dismissed claims that terrorists might be sneaking into the camp beside genuine refugees, saying it was 'the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard'.

The Care4Calais charity says it aims to deliver aid and support to migrants that is 'emotional as well as physical' and to encourage the public to be more welcoming.

Migrants have been warned they must apply for asylum in France or face deportation 

Police have already been turning away newly arrived migrants from the condemned camp

French riot police are preparing to challenge middle class British anarchists who have arrived in Calais to violently protest against attempts to raze the Jungle migrant camp to the ground

Aid groups in Calais have condemned the 'No Borders' anarchists over their violent methods

French authorities are removing the Jungle camp dispersing migrants across the country 

Police are preparing themselves for running battles this evening ahead of the evictions 

The French government has drafted in some 1,200 police to quell trouble in the Jungle

French police fired tear gas into the demonstrators during skirmishes in Calais last night

When the south side of the Jungle was destroyed in February, there was widespread violence, with CRS riot police and gendarmes coming under sustained attack.

Fires were lit across the camp, while water canon and tear gas was used to hold back mobs of activists and migrants.

Angry young Afghan men have already been seen smashing up the cafés, shops, and restaurants inside the Jungle.

Failure to leave the Jungle or to cooperate with the authorities will result in arrest and detention.

Migrants will be required to present themselves at a warehouse close to the Jungle where they can choose between two regions in France where they will be transferred.

France has promised a place for each migrant in an official reception and counselling centre 

Migrants have been busy packing their suitcases ahead of their eviction tomorrow 

French police are planning a major security operation involving more than 1,200 police 

French police have been handing out letters warning migrants about the planned evictions

On Monday, there will be 60 buses for 3,000 people, on Tuesday 45 buses, for 2,500 people, and on Wednesday 40 buses for 2,000 people. This will continue throughout the week.

Unaccompanied minors living in the Jungle will be processed separately and include interviews by British officials. Checks will be carried out to determine their ages.

There have been encampments full of migrants in Calais for at least 20 years, but the Jungle is by far the biggest.

As well as restaurants and shops, there are Christian and Muslim places of worship, but it has become notorious for violence and squalor.

A female interpreter working for a French TV channel was raped at knifepoint by three men close to the Jungle last week, and there are regular fights with the police.