(She was only there to give out information on how to claim benefits
and free housing, courtesy of the British Tax payer, when these
illegal immigrants arrive in the UK)

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British journalism student gang-raped by asylum seekers in Calais
squatter camp
Last updated at 13:12pm on 28.08.08

A British student has been gang-raped by illegal immigrants in Calais,
it has been revealed.

The woman was writing a story on asylum seekers for her journalism
course when she was attacked, police said.

Up to 100 men have been rounded up as potential witnesses to the
crime, which is alleged to have taken place in a notorious squatter
camp nicknamed 'The Jungle'.

Police said the attack was of a particularly 'brutal nature'. The
victim is still in Calais.

The student was a journalist reporting on illegal immigration from
Calais to Britain

The victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was described as 'a
London student who had travelled to France to highlight problems
surrounding clandestine immigration'.

A police spokesman added: 'She appeared to be working alone, which was
clearly a very dangerous thing to do.

'We fear that the men she was reporting on attacked her in the wood
where they were staying.'

The woman, who is thought to be in her twenties or early thirties,
told locals she wanted to spend time with would-be illegal immigrants
who were attempting to reach Britain by stowing away on lorries.

The squatter camp is part of a disused an industrial zone called 'The
Dunes' and is a short walk from the ferry port.

Up to 500 men live there, supported by local charities.

Father Jean-Pierre Boutoille, of the refugee charity C’Sur, said:
'There are lots of journalists, including students, who come here to
get to the heart of what’s going on, to write reports and produce
films.

'When reporters contact us, we always ask to accompany them. We know
the refugees as we see them everyday.

'We would never allow a young female adventurer in this wood,
especially not at night.


'On Tuesday we did not receive any requests for assistance, and nor
did any other charities.'



Yesterday some 100 would-be immigrants to Britain were rounded up by a
force of French riot police.

Most of the men claimed to be from Iraq, Afghanistan or the Middle
East, although police believe many were from eastern Europe and the
Balkans.


One, who asked not to be named, said: 'Yes, I saw a young journalist
with a camera. Lots come this way.

'I don’t know who she was exactly, but she was young, perhaps 30, and
a student from London.


'The word is that something happened to her in the woods.'


In 2005 a gang of  immigrants was implicated in the rape of a resident
of Oye-Plage, near Calais.


Calais became a magnate for immigrants in the late 90s following the
opening of the Sangatte Cross Centre, which housed 67000 immigrants
over three years.

Before its closure in 2002 following an agreement between the French
and British governments many tried to jump on to slow-moving trains at
the entrance to the Channel Tunnel, or hide inside lorries crossing to
Britain on ferries.

The election of a new Right Wing council in Calais saw plans to open a
Sangatte II abandoned, but would-be immigrants to Britain still arrive
by the day.


The Home Office said the number of refugees caught entering Britain
illegally from Calais has fallen to around 1,500 a year from 10,000 in
2002, when Sangatte closed.